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Psalm 104

3 songs checked against Psalm 104. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

Psalm 104:1-2 · “How Great Is Our God” · Chris Tomlin

NOT A QUOTE “How Great Is Our God” Chris Tomlin Psalm 104:1-2 Sing it. It quotes nothing and never says it is scripture. Verse one carries Psalm 104's opening pictures honestly, the chorus is a true sentence with several scriptural homes, and the Trinity verse is the church's creed, knowingly added.

✓ Verse one's pictures nearly all have addresses inside Psalm 104 itself: royal splendor and the garment of light (vv. 1-2), creation startled at His voice (v. 7), the trembling earth (v. 32)

⚠ The Trinity verse is the songwriters' creedal addition. Psalm 104 names no Trinity, so a listener sent to the psalm by the origin story will not find that verse in it

Psalm 104:3-4 · “O Worship The King” · Passion (Chris Tomlin)

~ FAITHFUL “O Worship The King” Passion (Chris Tomlin) Psalm 104:3-4 Sing it. It is a hymnal's versification of Psalm 104, and hymnals still print the psalm number next to the title. The 2004 arrangement adds a chorus of its own and drops that label.

✓ The stanza that carries this passage tracks verse 3 closely: light as clothing, space overhead, clouds turned into a chariot, and the wind's wings as God's road are all the verse's own pictures in another meter

⚠ Verse 3 gives the clouds as a chariot with no anger attached. The hymn's chariots are chariots of wrath. The wrath is elsewhere in Psalm 104, at verses 7 and 35, and in Psalm 18's storm, but it is not in the verse the stanza is built on

Psalm 104:27-34 · “Rejoice in All Your Works (Psalm 104)” · Wendell Kimbrough

~ FAITHFUL “Rejoice in All Your Works (Psalm 104)” Wendell Kimbrough Psalm 104:27-34 Sing it. The title tells you it is Psalm 104 in a songwriter's words, and the words keep the psalm's most surprising move: God is the one asked to rejoice. The trinitarian ending is the church's addition, knowingly made.

✓ The chorus keeps Psalm 104:31's direction: God is asked to rejoice in His own works, and the congregation's rejoicing is a second, answering line

⚠ The bridge names the Son, whom Psalm 104 never mentions. Colossians 1:16 supports the theology, but the line is the New Testament's, not the psalm's

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