Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God.
New American Standard Bible
To God
And upon the
King James Version
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Holman Bible
to God, my greatest joy.
I will praise You with the lyre,
God, my God.
International Standard Version
Then I will approach the altar of God, even to God in whom my joy finds its source. Then I will praise you with the lyre, God, my God,
A Conservative Version
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.
American Standard Version
Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
Amplified
Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God, my exceeding joy;
With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!
Bible in Basic English
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
Darby Translation
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
Julia Smith Translation
I will come to the altar of God, to God the gladness of my joy: and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.
King James 2000
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, {my surpassing joy}, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.
Modern King James verseion
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.
NET Bible
Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
New Heart English Bible
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
The Emphasized Bible
That I may go in unto the altar of God, Unto GOD, mine exultant joy, - That I may praise thee with the lyre, O God - mine own God!
Webster
Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy: yes, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
World English Bible
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
Themes
Altar » Of burnt offerings » Called altar of God
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 43:4
Images Psalm 43:4
Prayers for Psalm 43:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For Rescue
3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling; 4 and that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God, for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.
Cross References
Psalm 57:8
Awake, O my glory; awake lute and harp. I myself will awake right early.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls.
2 Samuel 6:5
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all manner instruments of fir wood - with harps, psalteries, timbrels, fiddles and cymbals.
Psalm 26:6
I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,
Psalm 33:2
Praise the LORD with harp; sing psalms unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings.
Psalm 42:6
My God, my soul is vexed within me; therefore I remember the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon.
Psalm 66:13-15
I will go into thine house with burnt-offerings, to pay thee my vows,
Psalm 71:22-23
Therefore will I praise thee, and thy faithfulness, O God, playing on the lute; unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel.
Psalm 81:2
Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp with the lute.
Psalm 116:12-19
What reward shall I give unto the LORD, for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?
Isaiah 61:10
And therefore I am joyful in the LORD, and my soul rejoiceth in my God. For he shall put upon me the garment of salvation, and cover me with the mantle of righteousness. He shall deck me like a bridegroom, and as a bride that hath her apparel upon her.
Romans 5:11
Not only so, but we also joy in God by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the atonement.
Revelation 5:8
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and twenty four elders fell down before the lamb, having harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints,