Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Parallel translations
- WEB Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
- BSB Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.
- NKJV Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
- NASB Splendor and majesty are before Him, Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
- NLT Honor and majesty surround him; strength and beauty fill his sanctuary.
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Quick answer
Splendor and majesty surround Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary. God's presence radiates glory, power, and beauty.
Overview
The psalmist describes the glory that attends God's presence and dwelling. Honor, majesty, strength, and beauty all belong to Him and adorn His sanctuary. This glory was veiled and then revealed in Christ, in whom the fullness of God's beauty and majesty dwells (John 1:14; Colossians 2:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 63:2–3To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
- Ps 104:1Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
- 1 Chr 16:27Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
- 2 Pet 1:16–17For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- Ps 29:1–2Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
- Ps 29:9The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
- Ps 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
- Ps 8:1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
- Ps 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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