Psalms 76:1 Cross References

Psalms 76:1

1: God is well known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

The LORD has announced his victory and has revealed his righteousness to every nation!
He has remembered his promise to love and be faithful to Israel. The whole earth has seen the salvation of our God.

King Nebuchadnezzar sent this message to the people of every race and nation and language throughout the world: "Peace and prosperity to you!
"I want you all to know about the miraculous signs and wonders the Most High God has performed for me.

How great is the LORD, and how much we should praise him in the city of our God, which is on his holy mountain!
It is magnificent in elevation--the whole earth rejoices to see it! Mount Zion, the holy mountain, is the city of the great King!
God himself is in Jerusalem's towers. He reveals himself as her defender.

Answer me when I call, O God who declares me innocent. Take away my distress. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

"This will be a magnificent Temple because our God is an awesome God, greater than any other.
But who can really build him a worthy home? Not even the highest heavens can contain him! So who am I to consider building a Temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices to him?

Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes.
"He showed you these things so you would realize that the LORD is God and that there is no other god.
He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.

He has revealed his words to Jacob, his principles and laws to Israel.
He has not done this with any other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the LORD!

If you are a Jew, you are relying on God's law for your special relationship with him. You boast that all is well between yourself and God.
Yes, you know what he wants; you know right from wrong because you have been taught his law.
You are convinced that you are a guide for the blind and a beacon light for people who are lost in darkness without God.
You think you can instruct the ignorant and teach children the ways of God. For you are certain that in God's law you have complete knowledge and truth.
Well then, if you teach others, why don't you teach yourself? You tell others not to steal, but do you steal?

for as I was walking along I saw your many altars. And one of them had this inscription on it--'To an Unknown God.' You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him.

Let them all praise the name of the LORD. For his name is very great; his glory towers over the earth and heaven!
He has made his people strong, honoring his godly ones--the people of Israel who are close to him. Praise the LORD!

Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be crushed into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this!"

For what great nation has a god as near to them as the LORD our God is near to us whenever we call on him?
And what great nation has laws and regulations as fair as this body of laws that I am giving you today?

Then David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly: "O LORD, the God of our ancestor Israel, may you be praised forever and ever!
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.
Riches and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and it is at your discretion that people are made great and given strength.

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