Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Parallel translations
- WEB Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
- BSB Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
- NKJV Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty,
- NASB Bless the Lord, my soul! Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
- NLT Let all that I am praise the Lord. O Lord my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty.
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Quick answer
The psalmist calls his soul to bless the LORD, who is very great and clothed with honor and majesty. God's greatness in creation moves the believer to worship.
Overview
This psalm celebrates God as Creator, opening with the same self-summons that frames Psalm 103. God is described as robed in splendor, the King over all He has made. The majesty seen in creation is the glory of the triune God through whom and for whom all things were made (Colossians 1:16).
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Cross-references · 15
- Ps 103:22Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
- Ps 145:3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Ps 96:6Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Ps 103:1–2Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
- Dan 9:4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
- Ps 104:35Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
- Isa 59:17For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
- Jer 32:17–19Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
- Jer 23:24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
- Ps 29:1–4Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
- Ps 7:1O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
- Hab 1:12Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
- Dan 7:9I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
- Rev 1:13–20And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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