O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
- 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.
- 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 71:19Your 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 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- 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 24:8Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Ps 84:12Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
- 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),
- 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.
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
- Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
- 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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