Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.
Parallel translations
- WEB Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- KJV Great is our Lord, and of great 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.
- 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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Cross-references · 14
- Isa 40:28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Ps 96:4For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
- 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!
- Nah 1:3Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Ps 48:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- 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.
- Jer 10:6There is no one like you, Yahweh. you are great, and your name is great in might.
- Jer 32:17–19“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
- 1 Chr 16:25For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
- Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Ps 145:3Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
- Ps 99:2Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
- Ps 135:5For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
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