“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
Parallel translations
- KJV O 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?
- BSB “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
- NKJV ‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?
- NASB ‘Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours?
- NLT ‘O Sovereign Lord, you have only begun to show your greatness and the strength of your hand to me, your servant. Is there any god in heaven or on earth who can perform such great and mighty deeds as you do?
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Quick answer
Moses praises God's greatness and unmatched mighty acts. It frames his request with worshipful acknowledgment of the LORD.
Overview
Before asking, Moses extols the LORD's greatness, declaring no god in heaven or earth can match His works. This worshipful approach to prayer models reverence and faith. It reflects the Deuteronomic emphasis that the LORD alone is God over all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Deut 11:2Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Jer 32:18–21who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
- 2 Sam 7:22Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Ps 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- Jer 10:6There is no one like you, Yahweh. you are great, and your name is great in might.
- Ps 145:6Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
- Ps 89:8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
- Ps 106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
- Isa 40:18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
- Ps 145:3Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
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