Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to obey 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.
- BSB Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
- NKJV Say to God, “How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to 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 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
- Ps 65:5By 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;
- Ps 81:15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
- Ps 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
- Ps 22:28–29For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.
- Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Isa 2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
- Ps 78:35–36They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
- Isa 64:3When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
- Ps 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Judg 5:20–22From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
- Judg 5:2–4“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!
- Exod 15:1–16Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
- Exod 15:21Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
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