Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough?
Parallel translations
- WEB Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
- KJV Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
- BSB Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
- NKJV Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can declare all His praise?
- NASB Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord, Or can proclaim all His praise?
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Quick answer
No one can fully recount the LORD's mighty acts or declare all His praise. It matters because God's greatness exceeds all human telling.
Overview
The psalmist marvels that God's deeds are beyond complete description. This expresses humble worship in the face of God's infinite power and goodness. It invites believers to praise continually, knowing they can never exhaust the worthiness of the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Eph 1:19and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:3–12Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
- 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!
- Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
- Job 26:14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
- Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Eph 3:18may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
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Christ at the center
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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