Therefore, strong nations will declare your glory; ruthless nations will fear 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.
- BSB Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
- 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.
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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.
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Cross-references · 13
- Isa 49:23–26Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
- Zech 14:16It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
- Ps 46:10–11“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
- Isa 60:10–14“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
- Isa 66:18–20“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
- Rev 11:13In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- Ezek 39:21–22I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
- Ezek 38:23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Isa 13:11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
- Rev 11:15–17The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Ps 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
- Ps 72:8–11He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
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