Psalms 147:5

New King James Version

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Great is our Lord, and great is his power: his wisdome is infinite.

Christian Standard Bible®
Our Lord is great, vast in power;his understanding is infinite.

Hebrew Names Version
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Easy-to-Read Version
Our Lord is great and powerful. There is no limit to what he knows.

Amplified Bible
Great is our [majestic and mighty] Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is inexhaustible [infinite, boundless].

American Standard Version
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord is great and powerful! He understands everything.

Complete Jewish Bible
Our Lord is great, his power is vast, his wisdom beyond all telling.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

King James Version (1611)
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his vnderstanding is infinite.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Great is our Lord, and great is his strength; and his understanding is infinite.

English Revised Version
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his understanding is infinite.

Berean Standard Bible
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

Lexham English Bible
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is unlimited.

Literal Translation
Our Lord is great and of great might; there is no limit to His understanding.

New Century Version
Our Lord is great and very powerful. There is no limit to what he knows.

New English Translation
Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

New Living Translation
How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!

New Life Bible
Great is our Lord, and great in power. His understanding has no end.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Great is our Lord, and of abounding strength, And, his knowledge, cannot be expressed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(146-5) Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

George Lamsa Translation
Great is our LORD, and great is his power; his understanding is infinite.

Good News Translation
Great and mighty is our Lord; his wisdom cannot be measured.

New American Standard Bible
Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.

King James Version
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Great is our Lorde, and great is his power: his vnderstandyng is infinite.

New Revised Standard
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Darby Translation
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure Lord is greet, and his vertu is greet; and of his wisdom is no noumbre.

Young's Literal Translation
Great [is] our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration.

World English Bible
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Revised Standard Version
Great is our LORD, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Update Bible Version
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

Webster's Bible Translation
Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is] infinite.

Bible in Basic English
Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Greate is or LORDE, and greate is his power, yee his wy?dome is infinite.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.

Legacy Standard Bible
Great is our Lord and abundant in power;His discernment is infinite.

Contextual Overview

¹ Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. ² The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. ⁴ He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite. ⁶ The LORD lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; Sing praises on the harp to our God, ⁸ Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹ He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry. ¹⁰ He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Great: Psalms 48:1, Psalms 96:4, Psalms 99:2, Psalms 135:5, Psalms 145:3, 1 Chronicles 16:25, Jeremiah 10:6, Jeremiah 32:17-19, Nahum 1:3, Revelation 15:3

his understanding is infinite: Heb. of his understanding there is no number, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 139:17, Psalms 139:18, Isaiah 40:28, Romans 11:33

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:3 - a God Job 12:13 - wisdom Job 28:23 - General Job 36:5 - mighty Job 37:16 - perfect Psalms 89:8 - a strong Isaiah 40:26 - bringeth Daniel 2:20 - for wisdom Romans 16:27 - only

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Great [is] our Lord, and of great power,.... "Our Lord" is our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of the whole earth; the Lord of his own people by creation, by redemption, by marriage, and by the conquest of his grace, and their voluntary submission to him; he is "great" in his person, offices, and grace, and therefore greatly to be praised; see

Psalms 145:3; and particularly his "power" is very "great", as appears in the creation of all things out of nothing by him; in the sustaining and support of the world and all things in it: in the redemption of his people from the hand of their powerful enemies; in beginning, carrying on, and perfecting a work of grace on their hearts by his Spirit and power; and in the preservation of them unto eternal life, through a thousand dangers and difficulties: at his resurrection all power in heaven and earth were given him as Mediator; and in the latter day he will take to himself his great power and reign; and in the last day will raise the dead out of their graves;

his understanding [is] infinite; it reaches to all things, not to the stars of heaven only, as in Psalms 147:4, but to the fowls of the air, to the beasts of the field, and cattle upon a thousand hills; to all on the surface of the earth, or in the bowels of it; and to the fishes of the sea: it reaches to all men, and to all the thoughts of their hearts, the words of their mouths, and the actions of their lives; it reaches to all things past, that have been, to everything present, and to whatsoever is to come; it includes not only the knowledge of all things that are, or certainly will be, but of all things possible, or which he could bring into being if he would; it is concerned not only with the quality and nature of things it perfectly understands, but with the quantity of them; even all things in creation and providence, which are without number and past finding out by men; and so his understanding is without number, and cannot be declared, as the word signifies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great is our Lord - See the notes at Psalms 48:1.

And of great power - This seems to be added, as in Isaiah 40:28, in view of the power required in making the heavens, and in guiding and numbering the stars: “Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?”

His understanding is infinite - Margin, Of his understanding there is no number. That is, This corresponds with his power to number the stars. There is no limit to it. It is not bounded; there is no point reached where it can be said that there is no more; that it is exhausted. See the notes at Isaiah 40:28 : “There is no searching of his understanding.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 147:5. His understanding is infinite. — To his intelligence there is no number: though he numbers the stars, his understanding is without number. It is infinite; therefore, he can know, as he can do, all things.