Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
- BSB You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.
- NKJV You are more glorious and excellent Than the mountains of prey.
- NASB ¶You are resplendent, More majestic than the mountains of prey.
- NLT You are glorious and more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
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Quick answer
God is glorious and majestic, more splendid than the mountains rich with prey.
Overview
The psalmist exalts God's surpassing glory above all earthly grandeur. The mountains of prey may picture the strongholds of conquering powers, yet God outshines them all. His radiant majesty calls forth worship and assures His people that no rival glory can compare to the Lord they serve.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ezek 19:1–4“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- Dan 7:17–28These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.
- Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- Ezek 19:6He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
- Ezek 38:12–13to take the plunder and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.
- Dan 7:4–8The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.
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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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