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With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
Psalms 65:5 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;
  • KJV By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
  • NKJV By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of the far-off seas;
  • NASB ¶By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, God of our salvation, You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth and the farthest sea;
  • NLT You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome deeds, O God our savior. You are the hope of everyone on earth, even those who sail on distant seas.

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Quick answer

God answers His people with awesome, righteous deeds and is the hope of the whole earth. It magnifies God as the powerful Savior and hope of all.

Overview

God responds to prayer with mighty acts of righteousness and salvation, and David widens the view to call Him the hope of all the ends of the earth and the distant seas. The God of Israel is the God of all peoples. This universal hope is realized in Christ, the Savior offered to the whole world.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Deut 10:21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
  • Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • 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 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
  • Ps 45:4In your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds.
  • Ps 68:19–20Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah
  • Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
  • Isa 51:5My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
  • Isa 66:19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
  • Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
  • Ps 47:2–3How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
  • Ps 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
  • Matt 28:19–20Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Rom 15:10–12Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”
  • Isa 60:5Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
  • Zeph 2:11The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
  • Zech 9:10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
  • Eph 2:17–18He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
  • Ps 76:3–9There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
  • Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
  • Isa 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
  • Rev 19:1–3After 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!
  • Rev 16:5And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
  • Ps 107:23Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 65:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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