Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain in Jerusalem, for the Lord our God is holy!
Parallel translations
- WEB Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
- KJV Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
- BSB Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.
- NKJV Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at His holy hill; For the Lord our God is holy.
- NASB Exalt the Lord our God And worship at His holy hill, For the Lord our God is holy.
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Quick answer
Exalt the LORD and worship at His holy hill, for He is holy. The psalm ends as it focuses: on God's holiness.
Overview
The closing refrain again summons worship, now at God's 'holy hill,' Zion, where He was enthroned. The threefold emphasis on holiness in this psalm magnifies God's unique and exalted character. Through Christ, believers from every nation are brought to worship this holy God acceptably.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Luke 1:49For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
- Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
- Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- 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.
- Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Ps 87:1–3A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
- Ps 99:3Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Ps 48:1–2A 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.
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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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