but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
Parallel translations
- KJV But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
- BSB For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
- 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 another, and will declare your mighty acts.
- Ps 150:2Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
- Ps 145:12to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
- Deut 5:3Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
- Ps 106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
- Deut 7:19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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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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