Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.
- KJV And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
- BSB They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.
- NASB People will speak of the power of Your awesome acts, And I will tell of Your greatness.
- NLT Your awe-inspiring deeds will be on every tongue; I will proclaim your greatness.
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Quick answer
Others will speak of God's awesome acts while David declares His greatness. True worship is both shared in community and embraced personally.
Overview
The verse joins the testimony of 'men' to David's own resolve, weaving corporate and individual praise together. God's 'awesome acts' inspire reverent awe that overflows into speech. The greatest of His acts is the salvation accomplished in Christ, which the church proclaims to all peoples.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
- Ps 107:31–32Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!
- Dan 3:28–29Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
- Ps 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
- Ps 126:2–3Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
- Ps 113:3From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
- Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Jer 50:28Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
- Ps 92:1–2A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Ps 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
- Dan 6:25–27Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- Ps 22:22–23I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
- Ps 107:21–22Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
- Josh 9:9–10They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
- Josh 2:9–11She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
- Deut 32:3For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
- Ezra 1:2“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
- Ps 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
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