He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
Parallel translations
- WEB He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
- BSB He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
- NKJV He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
- NASB He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
- NLT He is the Lord our God. His justice is seen throughout the land.
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Quick answer
He is the LORD our God, whose judgments are in all the earth. Israel's God is the sovereign Lord of the whole world.
Overview
The psalmist affirms that the covenant God of Israel is no local deity but the ruler whose justice spans the earth. His authority is universal. This God who reigns over all the earth has given that reign to Christ, before whom every nation will one day stand.
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- Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
- Exod 20:2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deut 26:17–18Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
- Rev 15:4Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
- Ps 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
- Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Ps 100:3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Deut 29:10–15Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
- Ps 48:10–11According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
- Josh 24:15–24And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
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