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He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psalms 98:3 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • KJV He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • BSB He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • NASB He has remembered His graciousness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • NLT He has remembered his promise to love and be faithful to Israel. The ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

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Quick answer

God has kept His covenant love and faithfulness to Israel, and the whole earth sees His salvation. He never forgets His promises.

Overview

God's saving acts flow from His steadfast love (hesed) and faithfulness to His covenant with Israel. Yet the salvation has worldwide visibility, reaching 'all the ends of the earth.' Simeon echoed this verse over the infant Jesus (Luke 2:30-32), recognizing in Him the salvation seen by all peoples.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
  • Acts 13:47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
  • Luke 1:72to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
  • Deut 4:31For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
  • Acts 28:28“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
  • Ps 98:2Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
  • Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Ps 67:7God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
  • Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
  • Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • Luke 3:6All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
  • Luke 2:30–31for my eyes have seen your salvation,
  • Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • Luke 1:54–55He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
  • Rom 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
  • Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
  • Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
  • Lev 26:42then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 98:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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