And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
- KJV And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
- NKJV And blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
- NASB And blessed be His glorious name forever; And may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
- NLT Praise his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen!
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Quick answer
It blesses God's glorious name forever and prays that the whole earth be filled with his glory, sealed with 'Amen and amen.'
Overview
The doxology reaches its height in a prayer that God's glory fill the entire earth. This longing runs throughout Scripture as God's ultimate purpose for creation. It will be fulfilled when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord's glory through Christ's universal reign (Habakkuk 2:14; Numbers 14:21).
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- Num 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
- Matt 6:10Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
- Ps 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
- Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
- Rev 5:13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
- Isa 6:3And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”
- Isa 11:9They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Rev 22:20He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
- Ps 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Zech 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
- Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Mal 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Jer 28:6“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
- Num 5:22May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
- 1 Kgs 1:36“Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
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