Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name.

New American Standard Bible

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

King James Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Holman Bible

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.

International Standard Version

I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

A Conservative Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou have magnified thy word above all thy name.

American Standard Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Amplified


I will bow down [in worship] toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word together with Your name.

Bible in Basic English

I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

Darby Translation

I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

King James 2000

I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name.

Modern King James verseion

I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name, because of thy loving-kindness and truth; for thou hast magnified thy word, according unto thy great name.

NET Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.

New Heart English Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

The Emphasized Bible

I will bow down towards thy holy temple, and thank thy Name, for thy lovingkindness and for thy faithfulness, For thou hast magnified, above all thy Name, thy word!

Webster

I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

World English Bible

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Youngs Literal Translation

I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 138:2

References

Fausets

Smith

Prayers for Psalm 138:2

Context Readings

A Thankful Heart

1 To David. I will praise thee with all my heart: before God I will play to thee on the harp. 2 I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name. 3 In the day I called, and thou wilt answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with strength in my soul.


Cross References

Psalm 5:7

And I in the multitude of thy mercy will come into thy house; I will worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee, in my lifting up my hands to the oracle of thy holy place.

Isaiah 42:21

Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.

1 Kings 8:29-30

For thine eye to be opened to this house night and day, to the place of which thou saidst, My name shall be there; to hear to the supplication which thy servant shall pray to this place.

Daniel 6:10

And Daniel as soon as he knew that the writing was signed, went up into his house; and the windows being opened to him in his upper chambers before Jerusalem, three times in the day he kneeled upon his knees, and praying and praising before his God, for the cause that he did from before this

Psalm 36:5-6

O Jehovah, thy mercy is in the heavens; thy faithfulness even to the clouds.

Psalm 56:4

In God I will praise his word, in God I trusted; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.

Psalm 56:10

In God I will praise the word: in Jehovah I will praise the word.

Psalm 85:10

Mercy and truth met together; justice and peace kissed.

Psalm 86:15

And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.

Psalm 89:1-2

Of instruction to Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of Jehovah forever will I sing: to generation and generation will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.

Psalm 99:5

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at the footstool of his feet; he is holy.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for Jehovah our God is holy.

Psalm 100:4-5

Come ye into his gates with confession, his enclosures with praise: confess ye to him, praise his name.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Jehovah, not to its, but to thy name thou. wilt give glory, for thy mercy, for thy truth.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the mercies of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah according to all that Jehovah benefited us, and the abundance of good to the house of Israel which he benefited them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his kindnesses.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.

Matthew 5:18

For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be

Matthew 24:35

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words should not pass away.

Luke 1:68-72

Praised the Lord God of Israel; for he reviewed and he has made a redemption for his people,

John 1:17

For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.

John 10:35

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the writing cannot be loosed;

Romans 15:8-9

And I say Jesus Christ has become the servant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers:

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