The Message Bible MSG
New International Version NIV
1 Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising.
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Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
2 Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano!
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Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
3 Invent your own new song to him; give him a trumpet fanfare.
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Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.
4 For God's Word is solid to the core; everything he makes is sound inside and out.
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For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
5 He loves it when everything fits, when his world is in plumb-line true. Earth is drenched in God's affectionate satisfaction.
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The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
6 The skies were made by God's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out.
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By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
7 He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
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He gathers the waters of the sea into jars ; he puts the deep into storehouses.
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