As a beast goes down into the valley, And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest, So You lead Your people, To make Yourself a glorious name.
Parallel translations
- WEB As the livestock that go down into the valley, Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
- KJV As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
- BSB Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
- NASB Like the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So You led Your people, To make for Yourself a glorious name.
- NLT As with cattle going down into a peaceful valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. You led your people, Lord, and gained a magnificent reputation.”
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Quick answer
God's Spirit gave the people rest, as cattle find rest in a valley, leading them to make His name glorious. It matters because God leads His people not only through danger but into rest.
Overview
The image shifts from the swift horse to cattle descending into a restful valley, picturing God granting His people peace and settlement. Once more the goal is the glory of God's name. The 'rest' God's Spirit provides points ahead to the rest believers find in Christ (Matthew 11:28; Hebrews 4:9-10), the true and lasting Sabbath.
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- Isa 63:12Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
- Heb 4:8–11For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Josh 23:1After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
- Luke 2:14“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
- Josh 22:4Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
- Num 14:21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;
- Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 2 Sam 7:23What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
- 1 Chr 29:13Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
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