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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
הללו-יה כי-טוב זמרה אלהינו-- כי-נעים נאוה תהלה
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
hllv-yh ky-tvb zmrh Alhynv-- ky-n`ym nAvh thlh

Intermediate language

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is fitting.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Authorized (King James) Version   
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
New King James Version   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
21st Century King James Version   
Praise ye the Lord! For it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
It is good to sing to our God, and sweet, and praise is fitting for him.
Darby Bible Translation   
Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Praise ye the LORD; for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
God's Word   
Hallelujah! It is good to sing psalms to our God. It is pleasant to sing [his] praise beautifully.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing to our God, for praise is pleasant and lovely.
International Standard Version   
Hallelujah! It is good to sing praise to our God, and it is fitting to sing glorious praise.
NET Bible   
Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God! Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!
New American Standard Bible   
Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
New International Version   
Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
New Living Translation   
Praise the LORD! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!
Webster's Bible Translation   
Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
The World English Bible   
Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! It is good to sing to praise our God! Yes, it is right to praise him and it makes us happy.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
Praise ye Jah! For [it is] good to praise our God, For pleasant -- comely [is] praise.
New Life Version   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God. For it is pleasing and praise is right.
The Voice Bible   
Praise the Eternal! It is good to sing praises to our God, for praise is beautiful and pleasant.
Living Bible   
Hallelujah! Yes, praise the Lord! How good it is to sing his praises! How delightful, and how right!
New Catholic Bible   
Alleluia. How good it is to sing praises to our God; how pleasant it is to give him fitting praise.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Praise Yah! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Halelu-JAH: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for praise is pleasant and beautiful.
Christian Standard Bible   
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing to our God, for praise is pleasant and lovely.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God, for He is gracious and lovely; praise is becoming and appropriate.
New Century Version   
Praise the Lord! It is good to sing praises to our God; it is good and pleasant to praise him.
The Message   
Hallelujah! It’s a good thing to sing praise to our God; praise is beautiful, praise is fitting.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Praise the Lord. How good it is to make music to our God. Yes, praise is pleasant and fitting!
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
Good News Translation®   
Praise the Lord! It is good to sing praise to our God; it is pleasant and right to praise him.
Wycliffe Bible   
Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, for the psalm is good; (let our) praising be merry, and fair to our God. (Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing to him; let our praises be joyful, and pleasing to our God.)
Contemporary English Version   
Shout praises to the Lord! Our God is kind, and it is right and good to sing praises to him.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God, for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Praise the Lord! Because it is good to sing praise to our God! Because it is a pleasure to make beautiful praise!
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our [gracious and majestic] God; Praise is becoming and appropriate.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Hallelujah! How good to sing praise to our God; how pleasant to give fitting praise.
New American Standard Bible   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is beautiful.
The Expanded Bible   
Praise the Lord! It is good to ·sing praises [make a psalm] to our God; it is pleasant and ·good [L fitting] to praise him.
Tree of Life Version   
Halleluyah! How good it is to sing praises to our God. How pleasant and fitting is praise.
Revised Standard Version   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.
New International Reader's Version   
Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God! How pleasant and right it is to praise him!
BRG Bible   
Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Halleluyah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! How sweet, how fitting to praise him!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Praise ye Hashem: for it is tov to sing praises unto Eloheinu; for it is na’im (pleasant); and tehillah is fitting.
Names of God Bible   
Hallelujah! It is good to sing psalms to our Elohim. It is pleasant to sing his praise beautifully.
Modern English Version   
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Praise the Lord because he is good. Sing praises to our God. It is good and pleasant to praise him.
International Children’s Bible   
Praise the Lord! It is good to sing praises to our God. It is good and pleasant to praise him.
Lexham English Bible   
Praise Yah. For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; praise is fitting.
New International Version - UK   
Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!