O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
- KJV LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
- NKJV Lord, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us.
- NASB Lord, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works.
- NLT Lord, you will grant us peace; all we have accomplished is really from you.
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Quick answer
The people confess that the Lord will establish peace for them, since He has accomplished all their works. Every good thing they have is God's own doing.
Overview
God ordains peace for His people and is acknowledged as the one who has done all their works for them. This humble confession denies any self-achievement. It anticipates the gospel truth that salvation and every good work are God's gracious accomplishment, not ours.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- Ps 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
- Ps 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
- Ezek 20:14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Jer 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
- Isa 57:10You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
- Ezek 20:22But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezek 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
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