Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
- KJV Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
- NKJV Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.
- NASB Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to obey You.
- NLT Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! Your enemies cringe before your mighty power.
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Quick answer
God's awesome deeds and great power cause even enemies to submit. It declares the overwhelming might of God before all opposition.
Overview
The worshipers tell God how awesome His works are, so that His enemies cringe before His power. Even hostile powers are forced to acknowledge His greatness. This foreshadows the final triumph of Christ, to whom every foe will at last submit.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 18:44When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
- Ps 65:5With 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.
- Ps 81:15Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
- Ps 47:2How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
- Ps 22:28–29For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.
- Jer 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
- Isa 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
- Ps 78:35–36And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
- Isa 64:3When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
- Ps 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Judg 5:20–22From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
- Judg 5:2–4“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.
- Exod 15:1–16Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- Exod 15:21And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”
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