Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
- BSB Great is the LORD in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.
- NKJV The Lord is great in Zion, And He is high above all the peoples.
- NASB The Lord is great in Zion, And He is exalted above all the peoples.
- NLT The Lord sits in majesty in Jerusalem, exalted above all the nations.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 97:9For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
- Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
- Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
- Jas 4:6–7But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
- Ps 113:4Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
- Ps 76:1–2For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
- Ps 66:7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
- Ps 48:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Rev 14:1–5I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Dan 4:34–35At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
- Heb 12:22–24But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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