He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
Parallel translations
- KJV He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
- BSB He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
- NKJV He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever: Holy and awesome is His name.
- NASB He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; Holy and awesome is His name.
- NLT He has paid a full ransom for his people. He has guaranteed his covenant with them forever. What a holy, awe-inspiring name he has!
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Quick answer
God has sent redemption and ordained an everlasting covenant; His name is holy and awesome. Praise rises for His saving, covenant grace.
Overview
This verse moves to the heart of God's work: redemption for His people and an eternal covenant. In the Old Testament this recalls the exodus, but it points forward to the ultimate redemption accomplished by Christ, who establishes the everlasting covenant in His blood (Hebrews 9:12, 15). God's holy and awesome name calls forth reverent worship.
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- Ps 99:3Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
- Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
- Luke 1:49For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Heb 9:12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Jer 33:20–21“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
- Deut 28:58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
- Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
- Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
- 1 Pet 1:18–20knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Gal 3:15–17Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Ps 111:5He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
- 1 Chr 16:15Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
- Ps 99:9Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
- Ps 130:7–8Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
- Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Deut 15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
- Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
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