Praise & Worship Verses
Lift your voice to the Lord! Powerful Psalms and verses of adoration, thanksgiving, and worship.
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted {thy} voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? {even} against the Holy {One} of Israel.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. {Armenia: Heb. Ararat}
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
Moreover they that were nigh them, {even} unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, {and} meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for {there was} joy in Israel. {meat...: or, victual of meal}
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren {to be} the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
And he appointed {certain} of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.