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For God Alone: Singing New Songs

Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! (Psalm 96:1) The Bible records nearly 200 songs of all kinds - canticles, victory songs, hymns of praise, laments, and, of course, psalms - and includes many more references to singing, and to the singing of new songs. While the first reference to music in the Bible is recorded in Genesis 4:21 (Jubal, the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe), the first song in the Bible is the Song of Moses, recorded both in Exodus 15 and Deuteronomy 32, and is the glorious retelling of Israel’s triumphant exodus from Egypt following four hundred years of slavery. I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name. (Exodus 15:1b-3) Not only is the singing of new son