In Judah is God known: 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.
- 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.
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- Acts 17:23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
- Dan 4:1–2Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss 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 that can deliver after this sort.
- 1 Chr 29:10–12Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
- Ps 48:1–3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
- 2 Chr 2:5–6And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
- Rom 2:17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
- Deut 4:34–36Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Ps 147:19–20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
- Ps 4:1Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
- Ps 98:2–3The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
- Ps 61:1Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
- Deut 4:7–8For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
- Ps 54:1Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
- Ps 67:1God be merciful unto 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 excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
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