Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Parallel translations
- WEB You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
- BSB You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
- 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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Quick answer
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 delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
- Ps 136:4To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Exod 15:11Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Exod 13:14And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
- Ps 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
- Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Josh 9:9–10And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
- Exod 15:6Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
- Isa 52:10The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
- Ps 105:5Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
- Ps 86:10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Ps 106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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