Psalms 95:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Come! Let’s sing for joy to the LORD! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְ֭כוּ נְרַנְּנָ֣ה לַיהוָ֑ה נָ֝רִ֗יעָה לְצ֣וּר יִשְׁעֵֽנוּ

Transliteration

lekû nerannĕnâ to-YHWH nārîʿâ to-ṣûr yišʿēnû

Grammar Details

• *lekû*: imperative, masculine plural - come/go
• *nerannĕnâ*: cohortative, 1st person plural, piel - let us sing joyfully
• *YHWH*: proper name with prefixed preposition lamed - to/for YHWH
• *nārîʿâ*: cohortative, 1st person plural, hiphil - let us shout
• *ṣûr*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition lamed - to/for rock
• *yišʿēnû*: masculine singular noun with 1st person plural possessive suffix - our salvation

Word Meanings

• *lekû*: come/go
• *nerannĕnâ*: sing joyfully/make a joyful noise
• *nārîʿâ*: shout/make a loud noise/cry out
• *ṣûr*: rock/cliff/stronghold
• *yišʿēnû*: our salvation/our deliverance

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 22:47 : 47 The LORD is alive! My protector is praiseworthy! The God who delivers me is exalted as king!
• Ps 81:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the gittith style; by Asaph. Shout for joy to God, our source of strength! Shout out to the God of Jacob!
• Ps 89:26 : 26 He will call out to me,‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.’
• Ps 96:1-2 : 1 Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth! 2 Sing to the LORD! Praise his name! Announce every day how he delivers!
• Ps 98:4-8 : 4 Shout out praises to the LORD, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing! 5 Sing to the LORD accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music! 6 With trumpets and the blaring of the ram’s horn, shout out praises before the king, the LORD! 7 Let the sea and everything in it shout, along with the world and those who live in it! 8 Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison
• Ps 100:1 : 1 A thanksgiving psalm. Shout out praises to the LORD, all the earth!
• Ps 101:1 : 1 A psalm of David. I will sing about loyalty and justice! To you, O LORD, I will sing praises!
• Ps 107:8 : 8 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
• Ps 107:15 : 15 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
• Ps 107:21 : 21 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
• Ps 117:1 : 1 Praise the LORD, all you nations! Applaud him, all you foreigners!
• Ps 118:1 : 1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good and his loyal love endures!
• Ps 136:1-3 : 1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loyal love endures. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods, for his loyal love endures. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loyal love endures,
• Ps 148:11-13 : 11 you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth, 12 you young men and young women, you elderly, along with you children! 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty extends over the earth and sky.
• Ps 150:6 : 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
• Isa 12:4-6 : 4 At that time you will say:“Praise the LORD! Ask him for help! Publicize his mighty acts among the nations! Make it known that he is unique! 5 Sing to the LORD, for he has done magnificent things, let this be known throughout the earth! 6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
• Jer 33:11 : 11 Once again there will be sounds of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the LORD and will say,“Give thanks to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. For the LORD is good and his unfailing love lasts forever.” For I, the LORD, affirm that I will restore the land to what it was in days of old.’
• Matt 21:9 : 9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting,“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
• 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
• Eph 5:19 : 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
• Rev 14:3 : 3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb:“Great and astounding are your deeds, Lord God, the All-Powerful! Just and true are your ways, King over the nations!
• Rev 19:6 : 6 The Wedding Celebration of the Lamb Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting:“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the All-Powerful, reigns!
• 1 Chr 16:9 : 9 Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!
• Ezra 3:11-13 : 11 With antiphonal response they sang, praising and glorifying the LORD:“For he is good; his loyal love toward Israel is forever.” All the people gave a loud shout as they praised the LORD when the temple of the LORD was established. 12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders– older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established– were weeping loudly, and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout. 13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly that the sound was heard a long way off.
• Ps 34:3 : 3 Magnify the LORD with me! Let’s praise his name together!
• Ps 47:6-7 : 6 Sing to God! Sing! Sing to our king! Sing! 7 For God is king of the whole earth! Sing a well-written song!
• Ps 66:1-2 : 1 For the music director; a song, a psalm. Shout out praise to God, all the earth! 2 Sing praises about the majesty of his reputation! Give him the honor he deserves!
• Ps 66:8 : 8 Praise our God, you nations! Loudly proclaim his praise!
• Exod 15:1 : 1 The Song of Triumph Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said,“I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.
• Exod 15:21 : 21 Miriam sang in response to them,“Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.”
• Deut 32:15 : 15 Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.