Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
- KJV Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
- NKJV Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.
- NASB Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
- NLT Therefore, strong nations will declare your glory; ruthless nations will fear you.
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Quick answer
Because of God's mighty acts, even strong and ruthless nations will come to glorify and fear Him. His judgments lead some of the nations to worship.
Overview
The fall of the proud city moves strong peoples to honor and revere the Lord. God's judgments are also a means of drawing the nations to acknowledge Him. This anticipates the gospel's reach, as peoples once hostile bow before the God of Israel.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 49:23–26Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
- Zech 14:16Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- Ps 46:10–11“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Zech 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
- Isa 60:10–14Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- Isa 66:18–20“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
- Rev 11:13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- Ezek 39:21–22I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Ezek 38:23I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
- Isa 13:11I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
- Rev 11:15–17Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Ps 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
- Ps 72:8–11May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
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