When you want to give thanks

³⁴ Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

³⁵ Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’

³⁶ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”

When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²⁸ You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

²⁹ Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²⁹ Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;

³⁰ tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

³¹ Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’

³² Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.

³³ Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.

³⁴ Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

⁹ And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

¹⁰ Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

¹¹ Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

¹² Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

¹³ Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.

¹³ The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud

¹⁴ so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

²¹ Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”

²² The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

⁷ Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

⁸ Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.

⁹ Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

³ With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

⁴ and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

¹² They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

¹³ Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

¹⁴ I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.