Your 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?
- KJV Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
- BSB Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great 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 you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Ps 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
- Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Ps 89:6–8For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
- Isa 40:18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
- Ps 63:2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- Isa 46:5“To whom will you liken me, and consider my equal, and compare me, that we may be equal?
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Ps 68:25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with 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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