For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
- KJV For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
- NKJV For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.
- NASB For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.
- NLT For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.
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Quick answer
God is great, does wondrous things, and is God alone. His unrivaled greatness is the basis of universal worship.
Overview
David grounds the nations' worship (v. 9) in God's greatness, mighty works, and absolute uniqueness. 'You are God alone' is a foundational confession of biblical faith. This exclusive deity is upheld in the New Testament, where the one true God makes Himself known savingly in His Son.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Mark 12:29Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
- Isa 37:16“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
- Ps 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- 1 Cor 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- Deut 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Isa 44:6–8Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
- Isa 37:20And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
- Rom 15:18–19I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
- Eph 4:6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Deut 6:3–4Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Ps 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- Ps 77:13–15Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?
- Ps 145:3–5Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- Acts 4:30as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
- Acts 2:19–22I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
- Job 11:7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- Dan 6:26–27I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
- Heb 2:4and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
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