You, O God, are my king from ages past, bringing salvation to the earth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
- KJV For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- BSB Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
- NKJV For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- NASB ¶Yet God is my King from long ago, Who performs acts of salvation in the midst of the earth.
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Quick answer
Despite the ruin, Asaph affirms that God is his King from of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
Overview
The lament pivots to confident confession: God has always reigned and continues to work deliverance. This declaration of God's ancient kingship anchors hope amid devastation. The God who has long worked salvation in the earth brings it to its climax in Christ, the eternal King who accomplishes everlasting redemption (Luke 1:68-69).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Ps 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Num 23:21–22He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
- 1 Sam 19:5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
- Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
- Exod 15:2–15Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Hab 3:12–14You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- Judg 4:23–24So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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