For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Parallel translations
- KJV In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
- BSB For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
- NKJV In Judah God is known; His name is great in Israel.
- NASB God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
- NLT God is honored in Judah; his name is great in Israel.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Dan 4:1–2Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- Acts 17:23For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
- 1 Chr 29:10–12Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.
- Ps 48:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Ps 61:1For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
- Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
- Rom 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- Deut 4:34–36Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- 2 Chr 2:5–6“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
- Ps 4:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
- Ps 54:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?” Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
- Ps 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
- Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
- Ps 148:13–14let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
- Ps 67:1For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
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