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For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Psalms 76:1 · World English Bible
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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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 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.
  • Dan 4:1–2Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 2:5–6“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.
  • 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?
  • Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
  • 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 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
  • Ps 61:1For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
  • 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 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 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.
  • Ps 148:13–14let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 76:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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