Ascribe strength to God; His excellence is over Israel, And His strength is in the clouds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
- KJV Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
- BSB Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.
- NASB Ascribe strength to God; His majesty is over Israel, And His strength is in the skies.
- NLT Tell everyone about God’s power. His majesty shines down on Israel; his strength is mighty in the heavens.
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Quick answer
We are called to ascribe strength to God, whose majesty rests over Israel and whose power fills the skies. It directs us to give God the glory he is due.
Overview
David urges the people to attribute all strength to God, whose excellence is shown toward Israel and whose might fills the heavens. Worship rightly acknowledges that power belongs to God alone. This confession that strength belongs to the Lord prepares us to find our strength not in ourselves but in the God who supplies it through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Pet 1:17For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
- 1 Chr 16:28–29Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!
- Rev 19:6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
- Ps 150:1Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
- Ps 29:1–2A Psalm by David. Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
- Ps 96:6–8Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
- Deut 33:26“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
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