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.
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!
- BSB O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to 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
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- Ps 29:11The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
- Col 1:11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
- Isa 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
- Zech 10:12And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.
- Ps 65:5By 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:
- Rev 6:16–17And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
- Neh 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
- Ps 66:5Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
- Eph 3:16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
- Isa 40:31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Ps 72:18–19Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
- Ps 45:4And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
- Ps 47:2For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
- Exod 15:1Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
- Ps 66:20Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
- Ps 76:12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Isa 45:21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
- Deut 33:25Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
- Heb 12:24–29And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
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