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.
- KJV He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
- BSB He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout 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 I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deut 26:17–18You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
- Rev 15:4Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- Ps 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Deut 29:10–15All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
- Ps 48:10–11As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Josh 24:15–24If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
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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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