Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Parallel translations
- WEB Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- BSB Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.
- NKJV Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
- NASB Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.
- NLT How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!
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Quick answer
Our Lord is great, mighty in power, and His understanding is infinite. God's strength and wisdom are without limit.
Overview
This sums up God's immeasurable greatness in both might and understanding. No problem exceeds His power and no situation escapes His wisdom. Such an infinite God is the One in whom believers may rest all their cares, knowing He fully understands.
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- Isa 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Ps 139:17–18How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
- Ps 96:4For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
- Rom 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Nah 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Ps 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
- Ps 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Jer 10:6Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
- Jer 32:17–19Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
- 1 Chr 16:25For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
- Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Ps 145:3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Ps 99:2The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
- Ps 135:5For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
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