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Bible in Basic English
For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Holman Bible
a great King over all the earth.
International Standard Version
For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
A Conservative Version
For LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
American Standard Version
For Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.
Amplified
For the Lord Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience];
He is a great King over all the earth.
Darby Translation
For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
For Jehovah the Most High is terrible; a great King over all the earth.
King James 2000
For the LORD most high is awesome; he is a great King over all the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For Yahweh Most High [is] awesome, a great king over all the earth.
Modern King James verseion
For Jehovah Most High is awesome, a great king over all the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.
NET Bible
For the sovereign Lord is awe-inspiring; he is the great king who rules the whole earth!
New Heart English Bible
For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
For, Yahweh - as Most High, is to be revered, A great king, over all the earth,
Webster
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
World English Bible
For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Jehovah Most High is fearful, A great king over all the earth.
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 47:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our King
1 O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy. 2 For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:21
Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
Malachi 1:14
A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
Psalm 68:35
O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
Nehemiah 1:5
And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:
Deuteronomy 28:58
If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
Psalm 22:27-29
All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.
Psalm 47:7
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
Psalm 65:5
You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
Psalm 66:3-5
Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.
Psalm 76:12
He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalm 95:3
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
Psalm 99:3
Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.
Daniel 7:13-14
I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.
Nahum 1:6-7
Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Philippians 2:9-11
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;
Revelation 6:16-17
And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: