Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
Parallel translations
- KJV O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
- BSB O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
- NKJV O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
- NASB Lord God of armies, who is like You, mighty Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
- NLT O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord? You are entirely faithful.
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- Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Jer 32:17“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
- 1 Sam 2:2There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
- Isa 40:25–26“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Ps 147:5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
- Ps 24:8Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
- Ps 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- Ps 84:12Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
- Josh 22:22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
- Isa 28:22Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
- Ps 89:13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
- 1 Sam 15:19Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
- Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
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