Psalms 104:33

I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

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WEBBE

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

BSB

I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

KJV

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

ASV

I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

BBE

I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

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The early church

"I will sing unto the Lord in my life" [Psalm 104:33]. What will sing? Everything that is willing. Let us sing unto the Lord in our life. Our life at present is only hope; our life will be eternity hereafter: the life of mortal life, is the hope of an everlasting life. "I will praise my God while I have my being." Since I am in Him for ever and ever, while I have my being, I will praise my God. Let us not imagine that, when we have commenced praising God in that state, we shall have any other work: our whole life will be for the praises of God. If we become weary of Him whom we praise, we may also become weary of praising. If He is ever loved, He is ever praised by us.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 31–35

Man's glory is fading; God's glory is everlasting: creatures change, but with the Creator there is no variableness. And if mediation on the glories of creation be so sweet to the soul, what greater glory appears to the enlightened mind, when contemplating the great work of redemption! There alone can a sinner perceive ground of confidence and joy in God. While he with pleasure upholds all, governs all, and rejoices in all his works, let our souls, touched by his grace, meditate on and praise him.

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Spurgeon · Verse 33

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live, or, literally, in my lives. Here and hereafter the psalmist would continue to praise the Lord, for the theme is an endless one, and remains for ever fresh and new. The birds sang God's praises before men were created, but redeemed men will sing his glories when the birds are no more. Jehovah, who ever lives and makes us to live shall be for ever exalted, and extolled in the songs of redeemed men. I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. A resolve both happy for himself and glorifying to the Lord. Note the sweet title —my God. We never sing so well as when we know that we have an interest in the good things of which we sing, and a relationship to the God whom we praise.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.