For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
Parallel translations
- WEB but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
- KJV But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
- NKJV but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did.
- NASB but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
- NLT But you have seen the Lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!
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Quick answer
Israel's own eyes had seen all of God's great works. Their personal witness left them accountable to obey.
Overview
Moses stresses that this generation directly beheld God's mighty deeds. Such eyewitness knowledge heightened their responsibility to trust and obey. Having seen so much, they had every reason to follow the Lord wholeheartedly, just as those who know Christ are called to faithful obedience.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 145:4–6One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Ps 150:2Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him for His excellent greatness.
- Ps 145:12to make known to men Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
- Deut 5:3He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
- Ps 106:2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
- Deut 7:19the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
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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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