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New King James Version

Psalms 145:3

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - God;   God's;   Greatness, God's;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Greatness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - God;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Greatness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Care of God;   Contentment;   Goodness of God;   Greatness of God;   Obedience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Haggai;   Life;   Praise;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Majesty;   Majesty (2);   Progress;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Most high;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Infinite;   Unchangeable;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Compassion;   God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 1;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praysed, and his greatnes is incomprehensible.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord is great and is highly praised;his greatness is unsearchable.
Hebrew Names Version
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is great and deserves all our praise! No one can fully understand his greatness!
Amplified Bible
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].
American Standard Version
Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.
Contemporary English Version
You are wonderful, Lord , and you deserve all praise, because you are much greater than anyone can understand.
Complete Jewish Bible
Great is Adonai and greatly to be praised; his greatness is beyond all searching out.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.
King James Version (1611)
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and his greatnes is vnsearchable.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to his greatness.
English Revised Version
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Berean Standard Bible
Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
Lexham English Bible
Great is Yahweh, and very worthy of praise, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Literal Translation
Jehovah is great and to be greatly praised; and to His greatness there is no finding out.
New Century Version
The Lord is great and worthy of our praise; no one can understand how great he is.
New English Translation
The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
New Living Translation
Great is the Lord ! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.
New Life Bible
The Lord is great and our praise to Him should be great. He is too great for anyone to understand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Great is Yahweh - and worthy to be heartily praised, And, his greatness, is unsearchable.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(144-3) Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.
George Lamsa Translation
Great is our LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Good News Translation
The Lord is great and is to be highly praised; his greatness is beyond understanding.
New American Standard Bible
Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.
King James Version
Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Great is God and most worthy to be praysed: and his greatnesse can not be searched out.
New Revised Standard
Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable.
Darby Translation
Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord is greet, and worthi to be preisid ful myche; and noon ende is of his greetnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
Great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching.
World English Bible
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Revised Standard Version
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Update Bible Version
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.
Webster's Bible Translation
Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness [is] unsearchable.
Bible in Basic English
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Greate is the LORDE, & maruelous worthy to be praysed, there is no ende of his greatnesse.
THE MESSAGE
God is magnificent; he can never be praised enough. There are no boundaries to his greatness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Great is the Lord , and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable.
Legacy Standard Bible
Great is Yahweh, and highly to be praised,And His greatness is unsearchable.

Contextual Overview

1 I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts. 5 I [fn] will meditate on [fn] the glorious splendor of Your majesty,And on Your wondrous works. 6 Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. 7 They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness. 8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. 9 The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Great: Psalms 48:1, Psalms 96:4, Psalms 147:5, Job 5:9, Job 9:10, Revelation 15:3

and his greatness is unsearchable: Heb. and of his greatness there is no search, Psalms 139:6, Job 5:9, Job 9:10, Job 11:7-9, Job 26:14, Isaiah 40:28, Romans 11:33

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:24 - thy greatness Deuteronomy 32:3 - ascribe 2 Samuel 7:22 - Wherefore 2 Chronicles 2:5 - great is our God Ezra 5:8 - the great God Job 36:26 - God Psalms 29:2 - glory Psalms 50:1 - mighty Psalms 86:10 - For Psalms 92:5 - O Lord Psalms 95:3 - For Psalms 104:1 - art very great Psalms 106:2 - utter Psalms 149:6 - mouth Psalms 150:2 - according Jeremiah 10:6 - thou Jeremiah 32:18 - the Great Daniel 2:45 - the great Luke 8:38 - saying John 10:29 - is greater

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Great [is] the Lord, and greatly to be praised,.... Christ is the great God as well as our Saviour; great in all the perfections of his nature, of great wisdom, power, faithfulness, holiness, grace, and goodness; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh; great in all his offices and relations he bears and stands in to his people; and great in all his works of creation, providence, and redemption, in which he is concerned; and upon all which accounts he is to be praised, and greatly to be praised, by his people, even to the utmost of their capacities, here and hereafter; see Psalms 48:1;

and his greatness [is] unsearchable; the greatness of his nature, and the perfections of it, these are past finding out; and so are his ways and works, and the riches of his grace, John 11:7. The Targum is,

"and of his greatness there is no end.''

So the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised - See Psalms 96:4, note; Psalms 18:3, note.

And his greatness is unsearchable - See Job 5:9, note; Job 9:10, note; Job 11:7-8, notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 145:3. His greatness is unsearchable. — Literally, To his mightinesses there is no investigation. All in God is unlimited and eternal.


 
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