Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Parallel translations
- WEB Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- BSB Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great 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 is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Ps 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
- Isa 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- Ps 89:6–8For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
- Isa 40:18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Ps 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
- Ps 63:2To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
- Isa 46:5To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
- Ps 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
- Ps 86:8Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
- Ps 68:25The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
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