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Psalms 22:3

Yet You are holy. The praises Israel gives You are Your throne.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God Continued...;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holiness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Habitation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Praise (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 23;   Every Day Light - Devotion for January 26;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you are holy,enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Yisra'el.
King James Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
English Standard Version
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
New Century Version
You sit as the Holy One. The praises of Israel are your throne.
New English Translation
You are holy; you sit as king receiving the praises of Israel.
Amplified Bible
But You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].
New American Standard Bible
Yet You are holy, You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
World English Bible
But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You are holy,Enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Yet you are the holy God, ruling from your throne and praised by Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
My God, by day I call to you, but you don't answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.
Darby Translation
And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, you are the Holy One. You sit as King upon the praises of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou art holy, and Israel dwells under thy glory.
Good News Translation
But you are enthroned as the Holy One, the one whom Israel praises.
Lexham English Bible
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Literal Translation
But You are holy, being enthroned on Israel's praises.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet dwellest thou in the Sanctuary, o thou worshipe of Israel.
American Standard Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O my God, I call by day, but Thou answerest not; and at night, and there is no surcease for me.
King James Version (1611)
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yet thou most holy: sittest to receaue the prayers of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary.
English Revised Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thou, the preisyng of Israel, dwellist in holynesse;
Update Bible Version
But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
New King James Version
But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
New Living Translation
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, thou, art holy, Who inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-4) But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And Thou [art] holy, Sitting -- the Praise of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
And you! Are you indifferent, above it all, leaning back on the cushions of Israel's praise? We know you were there for our parents: they cried for your help and you gave it; they trusted and lived a good life.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 My God, my God, why have You left me alone? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words I cry inside myself? 2 O my God, I cry during the day, but You do not answer. I cry during the night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet You are holy. The praises Israel gives You are Your throne. 4 Our fathers trusted in You, and You saved them. 5 They cried to You and were set free. They trusted in You and were not ashamed. 6 But I am a worm and not a man. I am put to shame by men, and am hated by the people. 7 All who see me make fun of me. They open their mouths and shake their heads, and say, 8 "He trusts in the Lord. Let the Lord help him. Let the Lord take him out of trouble, because he is happy in Him." 9 But You brought me out when I was born. You made me trust when I drank my mother's milk. 10 I was in Your care from birth. Since my mother gave birth to me, You have been my God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But: Psalms 145:17, Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 4:8

that: Psalms 50:23, Psalms 65:1, Deuteronomy 10:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - song Song of Solomon 2:14 - for sweet Revelation 15:4 - thou only

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money, and every man and boy who lived in his house. And he cut off their piece of skin that very day, as God had told him to do.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning. He took bread and a leather bag of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. He gave her the boy, and sent her away. She left, and went from place to place in the desert in Beersheba.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early in the morning and got his donkey ready. He took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac. He cut wood for the burnt gift. And he went to the place where God told him to go.
Genesis 22:4
Abraham looked up on the third day and saw the place far away.
Genesis 22:17
I will bring good to you. I will add many to the number of your children and all who come after them, like the stars of the heavens and the sand beside the sea. They will take over the cities of those who hate them.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men. And they got up and went with him to Beersheba. Abraham made his home there.
Psalms 119:60
I hurried and did not wait to obey Your Law.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your strength. For there is no work or planning or learning or wisdom in the place of the dead where you are going.
Matthew 10:37
"He who loves his father and mother more than Me is not good enough for Me. He who loves son or daughter more than Me is not good enough for Me.
Luke 14:26
"If any man comes to Me and does not have much more love for Me than for his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My follower.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou [art] holy,.... Which may be considered either as an argument with his God, why he should hear and answer him, since he is holy, just, and faithful; he has promised, when any call upon him in a day of trouble, he will hear and answer them, and will be glorified by them; this Christ did, and therefore pleads his faithfulness to his promise: or rather a reason quieting him under divine desertion, and a sense of divine wrath, that God was righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works; and that whereas he was the surety of his people, and had all their sins on him, it was perfectly agreeable to the holiness and justice of God to treat him in the manner he did; yea, it was done to declare his righteousness, that he might appear to be just, while he is the justifier of him that believes in him;

[O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel; either the place where Israel offered the sacrifices of praise to God, the tabernacle or temple, the house of prayer and praise in which Jehovah dwelt: or the true Israel of God praising him, who are formed for himself, and called by his grace to show forth his praises; among whom he takes up his residence: or else the praises themselves; and so the phrase denotes God's gracious acceptance of them, and well pleasedness in them, signified by his inhabiting of them, and the frequent and constant ascription of them to him: and perhaps respect may be had chiefly to the praises of his people for providing such a Saviour for them, settling him in the fulness of time, and not sparing him, but delivering him up into the hands of justice and death for them; and for giving all things freely with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But thou art holy - Thou art righteous and blameless. This indicates that the sufferer had still unwavering confidence in God. Though his prayer seemed not to be heard, and though he was not delivered, he was not disposed to blame God. He believed that God was righteous, though he received no answer; he doubted not that there was some sufficient reason why he was not answered. This is applicable, not only to the Redeemer, in whom it was most fully illustrated, but also to the people of God everywhere. It expresses a state of mind such as all true believers in God have - confidence in him, whatever may be their trials; confidence in him, though the answer to their prayers may be long delayed; confidence in him, though their prayers should seem to be unanswered. Compare the notes at Job 13:15.

O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel - That dwellest where praise is celebrated; that seemest to dwell in the midst of praises. The language here refers to the praises offered in the tabernacle or temple. God was supposed to dwell there, and he was surrounded by those who praised him. The sufferer looks upon him as worshipped by the multitude of his people; and the feeling of his heart is, that though he was himself a sufferer - a great and apparently unpitied sufferer - though he, by his afflictions, was not permitted to unite in those lofty praises, yet he could own that God was worthy of all those songs, and that it was proper that they should be addressed to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:3. But thou art holy — Though I be not heard, even while I cry earnestly, yet I cannot impute any fault or unkindness to my Maker; for thou art holy, and canst do nothing but what is right. This is the language of profound resignation, in trials the most difficult to be borne.

Inhabitest the praises of Israel. — Thou dwellest in the sanctuary where the praises, thanksgivings, and sacrifices of thy people are continually offered.


 
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