O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
- 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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Quick answer
Ethan asks who is as mighty as the LORD of Armies, whose faithfulness surrounds Him. God's strength and faithfulness are unmatched.
Overview
The psalmist affirms that none compares to Yahweh, the God of hosts, encircled by His own faithfulness. Power and covenant loyalty meet in Him. This mighty, faithful God acts savingly through Christ, the arm of the Lord revealed for our redemption.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ps 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
- Jer 32:17Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
- 1 Sam 2:2There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- Isa 40:25–26To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- Ps 147:5Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
- Ps 89:6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
- Ps 24:8Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
- Ps 84:12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
- Josh 22:22The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
- Isa 28:22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Job 9:19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
- Ps 89:13Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
- 1 Sam 15:19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
- Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
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