For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
- KJV In Judah is God known: 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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Quick answer
In Judah God is known, and His name is great in Israel, where He has revealed Himself.
Overview
This psalm celebrates God's victory and majesty, fittingly set to stringed instruments for worship. God is known in Judah because He has acted savingly and revealed His character there. His great name among His people anticipates the day His glory is known among all nations through the gospel of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
- Dan 4:1–2King Nebuchadnezzar, To the people of every nation and language who dwell in all the earth: May your prosperity be multiplied.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
- 1 Chr 29:10–12Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
- Ps 48:1–3A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
- 2 Chr 2:5–6The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
- Rom 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
- Deut 4:34–36Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Ps 147:19–20He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Ps 4:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
- Ps 98:2–3The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
- Ps 61:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
- Deut 4:7–8For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
- Ps 54:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!
- Ps 67:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
- Ps 148:13–14Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
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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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