The Voice of Melody
The Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he
will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord;
joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 51:3
Psalms
As David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit
thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. Luke 20:42-43
Is any merry? Let him sing psalms. James 5:13
Make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psalm 95:2
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. Psalm
105:2
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption. Acts 13:35
Example of a Psalm
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy
glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of
thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son
of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the
angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have
dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and
the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Psalm 8:1b-9
Note: "Psalm and or Song", "Song and or Psalm", is referenced twelve times
(verses being used in both Psalms and Songs): Psalm 30:1, Psalm 48:1, Psalm
65:1, Psalm 66:1, Psalm 67:1, Psalm 68:1, Psalm 75:1, Psalm 76:1, Psalm 83:1,
Psalm 87:1, Psalm 88:1, Psalm 92:1, and Psalm 108:1.
Types of Songs
Write ye this song for you that it may be a witness for me. Deuteronomy 31:19
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped:
therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. Psalm
28:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt
compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. Psalm 32:7
I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. Isaiah 5:1 From the
uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.
Isaiah 24:16a
The Song of Songs
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth (a kiss is a right answer ...
Proverbs 24:26): for "thy love" is better than wine (wine is the wrath of God
... Revelation 14:10). Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me
into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy
love more than wine: the upright love thee. Song of Solomon 1:2, 4
The Song of Moses, and the Lamb
Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy
ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy
name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before
thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. Revelation 15:3-4
Encouragement to Sing a New Song
Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the
congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise his name in the dance:
let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord taketh
pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of
his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent
greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with
stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him
upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the
Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Psalm 149:1-4, 150:6
Instruction for Creating a New Song
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. For the word of the
Lord is right (righteousness); and all his works are done in truth (judgment).
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the
Lord. Psalm 33:3-5
Preparedness for Creating New Psalms (Hymns), and Songs
Be ye followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath
loved us, giving yourself for others an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweetsmelling savour. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in
the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Be filled with the Spirit; Speaking yourselves (Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1) in psalms (hymns) and spiritual songs,
singing (making melody "in your heart") to the Lord; ("Giving thanks always" for
all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
"Submitting yourselves one to another" in the fear of God). Ephesians 5:1-2,
8-10, 18b-21
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching (Teaching us,
that we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Looking for that blessed hope ... Titus 2:12-13) and admonishing (Count him not
as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2 Thessalonians 3:15 See example:
Hebrews 8:5) one another in psalms (hymns) and spiritual songs, singing (with
grace "in your hearts") to the Lord. Colossians 3:16
Content of a New Song
O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day
(with every new song). Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among
all people. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared
above all gods. Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in
his sanctuary.
Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and
strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and
come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before
him, all the earth.
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be
established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the
fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall
all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh
to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people
with his truth. Psalm 96:1-4, 6-13
Spiritual Songs
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such
an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be
tempted. Galatians 6:1 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:44a
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with "spiritual". 1
Corinthians 2:13
All did eat the same spiritual meat; And all did drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Christ. 1 Corinthians 10:3-4 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of
spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 1
Corinthians 14:12
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:3-4
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5
We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might
walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work,
and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according
to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Colossians
1:9-13
Benefits in Creating and Singing New Songs
Include Getting to Know Jehovah ________________________________________
By my name Jehovah was I not known to them. Exodus 6:3
The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. Isaiah 12:2
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Jehoshaphat appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty
of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for
his mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing praise, the Lord set
ambushments against their enemies; and they were smitten. 2 Chronicles 20:21-22
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in
him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower,
and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. I will call on the
Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 2
Samuel 22:2-4
This song shall be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation
will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous
nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in
the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Isaiah
26:1-4
The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow
and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10
New things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto
the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down
to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 42:9-10 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the
most high over all the earth. Psalm 83:18
Serving the Lord is gladness: come before his presence with singing. Psalm 100:2
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that (in simplicity
and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God) we write
none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye
shall acknowledge even to the end; As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that
we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 2
Corinthians 1:12-14
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four
beasts, and the elders: saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto
our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Revelation 14:3a,
5:9-10
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by Joyce C. Lock
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