He has made known to His people the power of His works, In giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
- KJV He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
- BSB He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
- NKJV He has declared to His people the power of His works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
- NLT He has shown his great power to his people by giving them the lands of other nations.
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Quick answer
God showed His people His power by giving them the nations' land as their inheritance. His mighty acts secured their heritage.
Overview
This recalls the conquest of Canaan, when God gave Israel the 'heritage of the nations' as promised to Abraham. It demonstrates God's power working to fulfill His covenant word. The earthly inheritance foreshadows the greater inheritance secured for believers in Christ, an everlasting kingdom that cannot be shaken (1 Peter 1:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- Ps 2:8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
- Ps 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
- Josh 10:13–14The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
- Ps 78:12–72He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Josh 3:14–17When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
- Josh 6:20So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
- Ps 105:27–45They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Deut 4:32–38For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
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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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