O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- BSB O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.
- NKJV O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- NASB Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to everything that we have heard with our ears.
- NLT “O Lord, there is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!
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Quick answer
David confesses that Yahweh is utterly unique, with no rival God. It grounds his prayer in the incomparable greatness of the true God.
Overview
Continuing his prayer after the Davidic covenant, David responds to God's promises with worship rather than presumption. The confession 'there is no one like you' echoes Israel's foundational faith in the one true God (Deuteronomy 4:35) and frames everything David asks. Such God-centered praise points forward to the worship due to Christ, in whom God's incomparable greatness is fully revealed.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
- Exod 15:11Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Eph 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
- Jer 10:6–7Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
- 1 Sam 2:2There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- Isa 63:12That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Isa 43:10Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
- Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
- Ps 89:6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
- Deut 3:24O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
- Deut 4:39Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
- Deut 33:26There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
- Isa 45:5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
- Ps 78:3–4Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Ps 86:8Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
- Ps 89:8O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
- Ps 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Isa 40:18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Exod 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
- Isa 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- Deut 4:35Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
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