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King James Version

Psalms 77:13

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Readings, Select;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - God;   God's;   Greatness, God's;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeduthun;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Jeduthun;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration and Revelation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sanctuary;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Sanctuary;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Church Fathers;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God as our God!
Christian Standard Bible®
God, your way is holy.What god is great like God?
Hebrew Names Version
Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
Easy-to-Read Version
God, all that you do is holy. No god is as great as you are.
Amplified Bible
Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt]. What god is great like our God?
American Standard Version
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God?
Contemporary English Version
Everything you do is right, and no other god compares with you.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will meditate on your work and think about what you have done.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will meditate also upon all Thy work, and muse on Thy doings.'
King James Version (1611)
Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God, as our God?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O God, thy way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God?
English Revised Version
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is a great god like unto God?
Berean Standard Bible
Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?
Lexham English Bible
O God, your way is distinctive. Who is a great god like our God?
Literal Translation
O God, your way is in holiness; who is a god, great like God?
New Century Version
God, your ways are holy. No god is as great as our God.
New English Translation
O God, your deeds are extraordinary! What god can compare to our great God?
New King James Version
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?
New Living Translation
O God, your ways are holy. Is there any god as mighty as you?
New Life Bible
O God, Your way is holy. What god is great like our God?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O God, in the sanctuary, is thy way, - Who is a great GOD like Elohim?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(76-14) Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God?
George Lamsa Translation
Thy way, O God, is holy; there is none so great as our God.
Good News Translation
Everything you do, O God, is holy. No god is as great as you.
New American Standard Bible
Your way, God, is holy; What god is great like our God?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy way O Lorde is in holynesse: who is so great a God as the Lorde?
New Revised Standard
Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?
Darby Translation
O God, thy way is in the sanctuary: who is so great a god as God?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, thi weie was in the hooli; what God is greet as oure God?
Young's Literal Translation
O God, in holiness [is] Thy way, Who [is] a great god like God?
World English Bible
Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
Revised Standard Version
Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
Update Bible Version
Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like God?
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our] God!
Bible in Basic English
Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy waye (o God) is holy, who is so greate & mightie as God?
THE MESSAGE
O God! Your way is holy! No god is great like God! You're the God who makes things happen; you showed everyone what you can do— You pulled your people out of the worst kind of trouble, rescued the children of Jacob and Joseph.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?
Legacy Standard Bible
O God, Your way is holy;What god is great like God?

Contextual Overview

11 I will remember the works of the Lord : surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy way: Psalms 27:4, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 68:25, Psalms 73:17

who: Psalms 89:6-8, Exodus 15:11, Deuteronomy 32:31, Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Isaiah 46:5

Reciprocal: Job 37:3 - He Ezekiel 48:35 - The Lord Acts 13:17 - and with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary,.... Or "in holiness" y; that is, is holy, so the Syriac version, and to which the Targum agrees.

"O God, how holy are thy ways,''

see Psalms 145:17, or "in the sanctuary", the temple, the church of God, where he takes his walks, and manifests himself, and where the reasons of his providence, and dealing with his people, are opened and made known unto them, see Psalms 68:24,

who is so great a God as our God? the Targum is, as the God of Israel; he is great in his persons, perfections, and works, and is greatly to be loved, feared, and praised.

y בקדש "in sanctitate", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary - Luther renders this, “O God, thy way is holy.” Prof. Alexander, “O God, in holiness is thy way.” DeWette, “O God, holy is thy way.” The word rendered “sanctuary” - קדשׁ qôdesh - means properly “holiness.” It is not the same word which in Psalms 73:17 is rendered “sanctuary” - מקדשׁ miqdâsh. The word here employed, however, may mean a holy place, a sanctuary, as the tabernacle Exodus 28:43; Exodus 29:30, or the temple 1 Kings 8:8; 2 Chronicles 29:7. In this passage the word is ambiguous. It means either that the way of God is holy, or in holiness; or, that it is in the sanctuary, or holy place. If the former, it is a statement of the result to which the psalmist came in regard to the divine character, from a contemplation of his doings. If the latter, it means that the way of God - the true principles of the divine administration - are to be learned in the place where he is worshipped, and from the principles which are there set forth. Compare the notes at Psalms 73:17. It seems to me that the former is the correct interpretation, as it accords better with the scope of the passage.

Who is so great a God as our God - In greatness no one can be compared with him. He is supreme over all. This is the first reflection of the psalmist in regard to God - that he is great; that he is superior to all other beings; that no one can be compared with him. The evident inference from this in the mind of the psalmist, as bearing on the subject of his inquiry, is, that it is to be expected that there will be things in his administration which man cannot hope to understand; that a rash and sudden judgment should not be formed in regard to him from his doings; that people should wait for the developments of his plans; that he should not be condemned because there are things which we cannot comprehend, or which seem to be inconsistent with goodness. This is a consideration which ought always to influence us in our views of God and his government.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 77:13. Thy way - is in the sanctuary — See Psalms 73:17. I must go to the sanctuary now to get comfort, as I went before to get instruction. What a mercy to have the privilege of drawing near to God in his ordinances! How many doubts have been solved, fears dissipated, hearts comforted, darknesses dispelled, and snares broken, while waiting on God in the means of grace!

Some understand the words, Thy way is in holiness - all thy dispensations, words, and works are holy, just and true. And as is thy majesty, so is thy mercy! O, who is so great a God as our God?


 
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