Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Parallel translations
- KJV And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
- BSB And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the 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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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).
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 14:21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory;
- Matt 6:10Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
- Ps 41:13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
- Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
- Rev 5:13I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
- Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Isa 11:9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
- Ps 89:52Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
- Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
- Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Jer 28:6even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
- Num 5:22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”
- 1 Kgs 1:36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
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