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New Living Translation

Psalms 86:8

No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   The Topic Concordance - God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gods;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gods;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gods;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Monotheism;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 18;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord,Nor are there any works like Yours.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, Nor are there any works like Yours.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde: there is not one that can do as thou doest.
Darby Translation
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, Lord, and there is nothing like unto thy works.
New King James Version
Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; Nor are there any works like Your works.
Literal Translation
None among the gods is like You, O Lord, and none are like Your works.
Easy-to-Read Version
My Lord, there is no God like you. No one can do what you have done.
World English Bible
There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, Nor any deeds like your deeds.
King James Version (1611)
Among the gods there is none like vnto thee (O Lord:) neither are there any workes like vnto thy workes.
King James Version
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Amonge the goddes there is none like the o LORDE, there is not one that ca do as thou doest.
THE MESSAGE
There's no one quite like you among the gods, O Lord, and nothing to compare with your works. All the nations you made are on their way, ready to give honor to you, O Lord, Ready to put your beauty on display, parading your greatness, And the great things you do— God, you're the one, there's no one but you!
Amplified Bible
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, Nor are there any works [of wonder and majesty] like Yours.
American Standard Version
There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither are there any works like unto thy works.
Bible in Basic English
There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.
Update Bible Version
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like your works.
Webster's Bible Translation
Among the gods [there is] none like thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like thy works.
New English Translation
None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord! Your exploits are incomparable!
Contemporary English Version
No other gods are like you; only you work miracles.
Complete Jewish Bible
There is none like you among the gods, Adonai; no deeds compare with yours.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Among the gods there is none like thee, O Lorde, and there is none that can doe like thy workes.
George Lamsa Translation
There is none like thee, O LORD my God; neither are there any works like thy works.
Hebrew Names Version
There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, Nor any deeds like your deeds.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
There is none like unto Thee among the gods, O Lord, and there are no works like Thine.
New Life Bible
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord. And there are no works like Yours.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the god; and there are no works like to thy works.
English Revised Version
There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
Berean Standard Bible
O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
New Revised Standard
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There is none like unto thee, among the gods, O My Lord, And nothing like thy works.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(85-8) There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.
Lexham English Bible
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, and there are no works like yours.
English Standard Version
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
New American Standard Bible
There is no one like You among the gods, Lord, Nor are there any works like Yours.
New Century Version
Lord, there is no god like you and no works like yours.
Good News Translation
There is no god like you, O Lord, not one has done what you have done.
Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, there is no one like You among the gods, and there are no works like Yours.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, noon among goddis is lijk thee; and noon is euene to thi werkis.
Young's Literal Translation
There is none like Thee among the gods, O Lord, And like Thy works there are none.
Revised Standard Version
There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like thine.

Contextual Overview

8 No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do! 9 All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name. 10 For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God. 11 Teach me your ways, O Lord , that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. 12 With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, 13 for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death. 14 O God, insolent people rise up against me; a violent gang is trying to kill me. You mean nothing to them. 15 But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness. 16 Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant; save me, the son of your servant. 17 Send me a sign of your favor. Then those who hate me will be put to shame, for you, O Lord , help and comfort me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Among: Psalms 89:6, Psalms 89:8, Exodus 15:11, Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Jeremiah 10:6, Jeremiah 10:7, Jeremiah 10:16, Daniel 3:29

neither: Psalms 136:4, Deuteronomy 3:24, Deuteronomy 4:34

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:7 - Who Exodus 8:10 - there is none Deuteronomy 33:26 - none 1 Samuel 2:2 - rock 2 Samuel 7:22 - none 1 Kings 8:23 - no God 1 Kings 8:42 - great name 1 Chronicles 16:28 - ye kindreds 1 Chronicles 17:20 - none 2 Chronicles 2:5 - great is our God 2 Chronicles 6:14 - no God Job 36:24 - magnify Psalms 18:31 - General Psalms 35:10 - who Psalms 71:19 - who is like Psalms 86:10 - For Psalms 95:3 - For Psalms 135:5 - I know Isaiah 46:5 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord,.... Among the angels of heaven, as the Targum, in the king's Bible; see

Matthew 24:36, and who are sometimes called gods, and among whom there is none like to the Lord; see Psalms 97:7 or among civil magistrates, he being King of kings, and Lord of lords, the only Potentate; among whom he judges, over whom he presides, and whom he sets up and puts down at pleasure, Psalms 82:1, or among all those that are named gods in heaven, or on earth, the nominal and fictitious gods of the Gentiles, who are vanity, and the work of error: the portion of Jacob is not like them, Jeremiah 10:15, there is none like him, for the perfections of his nature, his power, wisdom, faithfulness, holiness, justice, mercy, grace, and goodness; Exodus 15:11.

neither are there any works like unto thy works; as the works of creation and providence, and those of redemption and grace, in which there is such a manifest display of the perfections of his nature, Deuteronomy 3:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord - Among all those which are worshipped as gods there is no one that can hear and save. The psalmist, in respect to prayer, and to help to be obtained by prayer, compares his own condition with that of those who worshipped false gods. He had a God who could hear; they had none. A true child of God now in trouble may properly compare his condition in this respect with that of those who make no profession of religion; who do not profess to worship God, or to have a God. To him there is a throne of grace which is always accessible; to them there is none. There is One to whom he may always pray; they profess to have no one on whom they can call.

Neither are there any works like unto thy works - That is, as done by those “gods.” There is nothing they have done which can be a ground of confidence that can be compared with what thou hast done. The allusion is to the power, the wisdom, and the skill evinced in the works of creation, and in the merciful interpositions of Providence. From these the psalmist derives a proof that God is able to save. There is no such argument to which the worshippers of false gods can appeal in the time of trouble.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 86:8. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord — None that trusted in an idol ever had help in time of need; none that prayed to any of them ever had an answer to his petitions. Thou savest; they cannot; thou upholdest; they must be upheld by their foolish worshippers. Thou art my Director, אדני Adonai; but they cannot direct nor teach; they have mouths, but they speak not.


 
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