He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
Parallel translations
- WEB He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
- KJV He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- BSB He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
- NASB He is your glory and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen.
- NLT He alone is your God, the only one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done these mighty miracles that you have seen with your own eyes.
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Quick answer
The Lord is Israel's praise and God, who has done great and awesome things they witnessed. He alone deserves their worship for His mighty deeds.
Overview
Moses points to God's mighty acts, seen with their own eyes, as the ground of Israel's praise. God is not only their object of worship but the very theme of it. Such remembrance of God's saving deeds fuels worship that finds its climax in the redemption accomplished by Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Rev 21:23The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
- Ps 22:3But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
- Deut 4:32–35For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
- 2 Sam 7:23What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
- 1 Sam 12:24Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
- Isa 60:19The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
- Ps 109:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
- Isa 12:2–6Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Ps 106:21–22They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
- Isa 64:3When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
- Jer 32:20–21who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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