52 Bible Verses about Praise, Reasons For

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord. Selah.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His servants, and the ones fearing Him, the small and great.

Sing praises to Jehovah, O you saints of His, and give thanks at the memory of His holiness.

Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah. Praise Jehovah!

Sing to Jehovah a new song; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and its fullness; coasts and their peoples.

Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.

For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

All the earth shall worship You, and shall sing to You; they praise Your name. Selah.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Jehovah does mighty things. The right hand of Jehovah is lifted up; the right hand of Jehovah does mighty things. I shall not die, but live and declare the works of Jehovah.read more.
Jehovah has sorely chastened me; but He has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and I will praise Jehovah. This is the gate of Jehovah into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise You; for You have heard me, and are my salvation.

let them praise the name of Jehovah; for His name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heavens.

O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. This also shall please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

praise Jehovah; for Jehovah is good; sing praises to His name, for it is full of delight.

Praise Jehovah; for it is good to sing praises to our God; for praise is delightful and becoming.

The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. This people that I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth comes out with its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to grow before all the nations.

For as the girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, says Jehovah; so that they might be to Me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory; but they would not hear.

Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion; declare among the nations His deeds.

Therefore, I will give thanks to You, O Jehovah, among the heathen, and I will sing praises to Your name.

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Jehovah at all times; His praise always shall be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah; the humble shall hear and be glad. O magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt His name together.

Give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands.

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because I will proclaim the name of Jehovah, ascribe greatness to our God.

Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness.

And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, amen, lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.

Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, You are very great; You have put on honor and majesty,

But when the crowds saw, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together before Jehovah; for He comes to judge the earth; with righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples in uprightness.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth and His ways judgment. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.

I will praise You, O Jehovah, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations. For Your mercy is great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.

I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to David my father, and has fulfilled it by His hand, saying, From the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that My name might be in it. But I chose David to be over My people Israel. And it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.read more.
And Jehovah said to my father David, Because it was in your heart to build a house to My name, you did well that it was in your heart. Only, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall come out of your loins, he shall build the house to My name. And Jehovah has performed His Word which He spoke, and I have risen up instead of my father David. And I sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised. And I have built a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah forever; with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my strong tower and hiding-place in the day of my trouble.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise Him.

To the Chief Musician. On Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

Jehovah lives; and blessed be my rock, and let the God of my salvation be praised. It is God who avenges me, and humbles the people under me. He delivers me from my enemies; yea, You lift me up above those who rise up against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.

And blessed be the most high God, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For You are the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the affliction of the enemy? Oh send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill, and to Your tabernacles.read more.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yea, on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.

A Song of degrees; of David. Except that it was Jehovah who was for us, O may Israel say; Except that it was Jehovah who was for us when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;read more.
then the waters would have flowed over us, the stream would have gone over our soul; then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. Blessed is Jehovah, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Blessed is Jehovah, because He has heard the voice of my prayers.

Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed is God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;

And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For behold, I give to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For to you is born today, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this is a sign to you. You will find the babe wrapped, lying in a manger.read more.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

And they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you by the power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;read more.
in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;