For You are great, and do wondrous things; 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.
- BSB For You are great and perform wonders; 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 answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
- Isa 37:16“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
- Ps 72:18Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- 1 Cor 8:4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Isa 44:6–8This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
- Rom 15:18–19For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
- Eph 4:6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
- Deut 6:3–4Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Ps 77:13–15Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- Ps 145:3–5Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
- Acts 4:30while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
- Acts 2:19–22I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
- Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Dan 6:26–27I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
- Heb 2:4God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
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