O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!
Parallel translations
- WEB You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
- KJV O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
- NKJV O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!
- NASB God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary. The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God!
- NLT God is awesome in his sanctuary. The God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!
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Quick answer
God is awesome in his sanctuary and gives strength and power to his people, so he is to be praised. It closes the psalm by affirming that God empowers his people and deserves all praise.
Overview
The psalm ends in awe, declaring God gloriously holy in his sanctuary and the giver of strength to his people. The whole song's theme, that the victorious God shares his power with the weak, comes to its climax in praise. Believers know this strength supremely in Christ, through whom God works mightily in his church to his everlasting praise.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- Ps 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
- Col 1:11being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- Isa 40:29He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
- Zech 10:12I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.
- 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.
- Rev 6:16–17And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
- Neh 1:5Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Ps 66:5Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.
- Eph 3:16I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
- Isa 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Ps 72:18–19Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- 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 47:2How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
- Exod 15:1Then 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.
- Ps 66:20Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!
- Ps 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Isa 45:21Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- Deut 33:25May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
- Heb 12:24–29to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
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