Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.
- KJV Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
- NKJV Be exalted, O Lord, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your power.
- NASB Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength; We will sing and praise Your power.
- NLT Rise up, O Lord, in all your power. With music and singing we celebrate your mighty acts.
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Quick answer
The psalm closes by exalting the Lord for his strength, vowing to sing and praise his power. Victory leads to worship.
Overview
The congregation calls God to 'be exalted' in his strength and pledges responsive praise of his might. The fitting climax of God's saving and judging acts is worship. So too the triumph of the Messiah evokes the praise of his people, who exalt the God whose power has secured their salvation.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 16:5–7And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
- Rev 19:1–6After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!
- Ps 113:5Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
- Ps 57:11Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.
- Rev 15:3–4and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Ps 72:18–19Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Matt 6:10Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- Rev 11:17saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.
- Ps 57:5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.
- Ps 18:46The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—
- 1 Chr 29:11Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Ps 46:10“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Rev 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
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