Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?
Parallel translations
- WEB Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- KJV Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
- NKJV Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?
- NASB Your way, God, is holy; What god is great like our God?
- NLT O God, your ways are holy. Is there any god as mighty as you?
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Quick answer
God's way is holy, and the psalmist asks what god is as great as the true God.
Overview
As Asaph meditates, his perspective lifts to God's holiness and incomparable greatness. The rhetorical question affirms that no other so-called god compares to the Lord. This recovery of awe at God's majesty restores the psalmist's confidence and reminds believers that the holy God they serve is utterly without rival.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Ps 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
- Isa 40:25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
- Ps 89:6–8For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.
- Isa 40:18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- Ps 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
- Isa 46:5To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
- Ps 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- Ps 68:25The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
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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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