Splendor 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.
- KJV Honour 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.
- 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 63:2–3So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Ps 104:1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
- 1 Chr 16:27Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.
- 2 Pet 1:16–17For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- Ps 29:1–2A Psalm by David. Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
- Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
- Ps 29:9Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
- Ps 8:1For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
- Ps 19:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
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