Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

New American Standard Bible

“Out of the north comes golden splendor;
Around God is awesome majesty.

King James Version

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Holman Bible

Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome majesty surrounds Him.

International Standard Version

From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.

A Conservative Version

Out of the north comes golden splendor. God has upon him awesome majesty.

American Standard Version

Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon him terrible majesty.

Amplified


“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

Darby Translation

From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty.

Julia Smith Translation

From the north, gold shall come: upon God terrible majesty.

King James 2000

Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is awesome majesty.

Lexham Expanded Bible

From [the] north comes gold-- awesome majesty [is] around God.

Modern King James verseion

Golden splendor comes out of the north; God is awesome in His majesty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Gold is brought out of the North, but the praise and honour of God's fear cometh from God himself.

NET Bible

From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

New Heart English Bible

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

The Emphasized Bible

Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour:

Webster

Fair weather cometh from the north: with God is terrible majesty.

World English Bible

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

Youngs Literal Translation

From the golden north it cometh, Beside God is fearful honour.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

אתא אתה 
'athah 
Usage: 21

out of the north
צפן צפון 
Tsaphown 
Usage: 153

with God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

References

American

Fausets

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away. 22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared. 23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.


Cross References

Psalm 104:1

Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

1 Chronicles 29:11

Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.

Job 40:10

Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

Psalm 66:5

Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.

Psalm 68:7-8

O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

Psalm 76:12

He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

Psalm 93:1

The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

Proverbs 25:23

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

Isaiah 2:10

Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

Isaiah 2:19

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

Micah 5:4

And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-19

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.

Hebrews 1:3

Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is an all-burning fire.

Jude 1:25

To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.

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