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!
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.
- BSB O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself 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 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
- Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- Isa 40:29He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
- Zech 10:12I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
- 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;
- Rev 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
- Neh 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
- Ps 66:5Come, and see God’s deeds — awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
- Eph 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
- Isa 40:31But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
- Ps 72:18–19Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Ps 45:4In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
- Ps 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
- Exod 15:1Then 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.
- Ps 66:20Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
- Ps 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Isa 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
- Deut 33:25Your bars will be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
- Heb 12:24–29to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
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