You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
Parallel translations
- WEB You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
- KJV Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
- NKJV You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the peoples.
- NASB You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
- NLT You are the God of great wonders! You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations.
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God is the one who works wonders and has made His strength known among the peoples.
Overview
The psalmist proclaims God as the worker of wonders whose power has been displayed before the nations. Recalling God's public, mighty acts strengthens faith. The God who revealed His strength in the Exodus continues to make His power known, climactically in the resurrection of Christ before the world.
Cross-references & the web
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- Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
- Ps 136:4He alone does great wonders. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- Exod 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Ps 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Rev 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Josh 9:9–10“Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Ps 105:5Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
- Ps 86:10For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
- Ps 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
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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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