You are the God who works wonders; You have made known 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 14
- Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
- Ps 136:4To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
- Exod 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Ps 72:18Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Josh 9:9–10They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Ps 105:5Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- Ps 86:10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
- Dan 3:29Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil 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 who is able to deliver after this sort.
- Ps 106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
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