Psalms 89:8

Literal Standard Version

O YHWH, God of Hosts, || Who [is] like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness [is] around You.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord God of Armies,who is strong like you, Lord?Your faithfulness surrounds you.

Hebrew Names Version
LORD, God Tzva'ot, who is a mighty one, like you? The LORD, your faithfulness is around you.

King James Version
O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

English Standard Version
O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord , with your faithfulness all around you?

New Century Version
Lord God All-Powerful, who is like you? Lord , you are powerful and completely trustworthy.

New English Translation
O Lord , sovereign God! Who is strong like you, O Lord ? Your faithfulness surrounds you.

Amplified Bible
O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds You [as an intrinsic, unchangeable part of Your very being].

New American Standard Bible
LORD God of armies, who is like You, mighty LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

World English Bible
Yahweh, God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
O Lorde God of hostes, who is like vnto thee, which art a mightie Lord, and thy trueth is about thee?

Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Yah?Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

Berean Standard Bible
O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

Contemporary English Version
You are Lord God All-Powerful! No one is as loving and faithful as you are.

Complete Jewish Bible
a God dreaded in the great assembly of the holy ones and feared by all around him?

Darby Translation
Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord God All-Powerful, there is no one like you. You are strong, Lord , and always faithful.

George Lamsa Translation
O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty like thee? and thy faithfulness is round about thee.

Good News Translation
Lord God Almighty, none is as mighty as you; in all things you are faithful, O Lord .

Lexham English Bible
O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, with your faithfulness surrounding you?

Literal Translation
O Jehovah God of Hosts, who is a strong Jehovah like You? And Your faithfulness is all around You.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God is greatly to be feared in the councell of the sayntes, & to be had in reuerence of all the that are aboute him.

American Standard Version
O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

Bible in Basic English
O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A God dreaded in the great council of the holy ones, and feared of all them that are about Him?

King James Version (1611)
O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like vnto thee? or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

English Revised Version
O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O JAH? and thy faithfulness is round about thee.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord God of vertues, who is lijk thee? Lord, thou art miyti, and thi treuthe is in thi cumpas.

Update Bible Version
O Yahweh God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like you, O Yah? And your faithfulness is round about you.

Webster's Bible Translation
O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like to thee? or to thy faithfulness around thee?

New King James Version
O LORD God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

New Living Translation
O Lord God of Heaven's Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord ? You are entirely faithful.

New Life Bible
Lord God of all, powerful Lord, who is like You? All around You we see how faithful You are.

New Revised Standard
O Lord God of hosts, who is as mighty as you, O Lord ? Your faithfulness surrounds you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O Yahweh, God of hosts! Who, like thee, is mighty, O Yah! With thy faithfulness round about thee:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-9) O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

Revised Standard Version
O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD, with thy faithfulness round about thee?

Young's Literal Translation
O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who [is] like Thee -- a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness [is] round about Thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
O Lord God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Lord ? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

Contextual Overview

⁵And the heavens confess Your wonders, O YHWH, || Your faithfulness [is] also in an assembly of holy ones. ⁶For who in the sky, compares himself to YHWH? [Who] is like to YHWH among sons of the mighty? ⁷God is very terrible, || In the secret counsel of His holy ones, || And fearful over all surrounding Him. ⁸O YHWH, God of Hosts, || Who [is] like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness [is] around You.⁹You [are] ruler over the pride of the sea, || In the lifting up of its billows You restrain them. ¹⁰You have bruised Rahab, as one wounded. You have scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength. ¹¹The heavens [are] Yours, || The earth [is] also Yours, || The habitable world and its fullness, || You have founded them. ¹²North and south You have appointed them, || Tabor and Hermon sing in Your Name. ¹³You have an arm with might, || Strong is Your hand—high Your right hand. ¹⁴Righteousness and judgment || [Are] the fixed place of Your throne, || Kindness and truth go before Your face.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O Lord: Psalms 84:12, Joshua 22:22, Isaiah 28:22

a strong: Psalms 89:13, Psalms 24:8, Psalms 147:5, 1 Samuel 15:19, Job 9:19, Isaiah 40:25, Isaiah 40:26, Jeremiah 32:17, Matthew 6:13

like: Psalms 89:6, Psalms 35:10, Psalms 71:19, Deuteronomy 32:31, 1 Samuel 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:6 - right hand Deuteronomy 3:24 - what God 2 Samuel 7:22 - none 1 Chronicles 17:20 - none 2 Chronicles 6:14 - no God Psalms 86:8 - Among Psalms 113:5 - like Isaiah 40:18 - General Isaiah 46:5 - General Jeremiah 32:21 - with a strong Jeremiah 49:19 - who is like Jeremiah 50:44 - for who Micah 7:18 - a God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord God of hosts,.... Of all the hosts of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, and of all the heavenly hosts of angels, of all the armies in heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth:

who is a strong Lord like unto thee? he is Jah, or Jehovah, and he alone is so, and is the most High in all the earth, Psalms 83:18 and there is none like him for his great power and strength, by which he has made the heavens and the earth, and upholds them in their being; and by which he has redeemed his people, plucked them out of the hands of sin and Satan, and preserves them safe to his kingdom and glory: see

Job 40:9,

or to thy faithfulness round about thee; none so faithful as the Lord, none to be trusted as he, either angels or men; some understand it of the faithful ones that are about him, his trusty servants the angels, who stand round about him ready to do his will; or the glorified saints that are with him, the called, chosen, and faithful; see Psalms 103:19 or rather the words are to be read, "and thy faithfulness is round about thee"; and so the Targum,

"and thy truth (or faithfulness) surroundeth thee:''

look all around him, and his faithfulness is everywhere to be seen; to himself, and the perfections of his nature; to his Son, and agreements with him; and to his counsels of old, his purposes and decrees, and to his covenant and promises: he is as it were clothed with faithfulness, and it appears in all the dispensations of his providence and grace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord God of hosts - See the notes at Isaiah 1:9; Psalms 24:10. God, commanding the armies of heaven; leading forth the stars; controlling all forces - all powers.

Who is a strong Lord like unto thee? - The original word here rendered “Lord” is יה Yâhh, or Jah. This is one of the few places where that word occurs, except in the compounding of words. It is an abbreviation of the name Yahweh, and has the same signification. See the notes at Psalms 68:4. The meaning is, that there was no one who in respect to power could be compared with Yahweh.

Or to thy faithfulness round about thee? - Rather, “thy faithfulness is round about thee.” That is, It attends thee at all times; it is always with thee; it is a part of thy very nature. To all round about thee, thou art faithful; wherever God is - and he is everywhere - there is faithfulness. He never changes; and people and angels may always trust in him. The psalmist then proceeds to illustrate the greatness of his power, and of his faithfulness, in the works of creation. The design of these illustrations, doubtless, is to keep before the mind the idea of the divine faithfulness as shown in the works of nature, and then to apply this to the covenant which had been made with David. The idea is, that he who is so faithful in nature will be the same in grace; that he who had shown such unchangeableness in the works of creation might be expected to show the like in respect to the promises which he had made.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:8. O Lord God of hosts — Thou who hast all armies at thy command, and canst serve thyself by every part of thy creation, whether animate or inanimate.

Who is a strong Lord — See Psalms 89:6.

Thy faithfulness round about thee? — Or, more properly, thy faithfulness is round about thee. Thou still keepest thy promises in view. God's truth leads him to fulfil his promises: they stand round his throne as the faithful servants of an eastern monarch stand round their master, waiting for the moment of their dismission to perform his will.