Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Parallel translations
- KJV O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
- BSB O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!
- NKJV O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
- NASB ¶Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
- NLT O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ps 8:1For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Ps 104:24Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
- Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Deut 33:26“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
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