Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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].

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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 Yet, now, men see not the light, bright though it is in the skies, when, a wind, hath passed over, and cleansed them. 22 Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour: 23 The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour, - Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken.

Cross References

Psalm 104:1

Bless, O my soul, Yahweh, - Yahweh, my God, thou art exceedingly great, With honour and majesty, hast thou clothed thyself,

1 Chronicles 29:11

Thine, O Yahweh, are Greatness, and Might, and Beauty, and Victory, and Majesty, nay! all in the heavens and in the earth, - thine, O Yahweh, is the kingdom, who art exalted above all, - as chief;

Job 40:10

Deck thyself, I pray thee, with majesty and grandeur, Yea, with dignity and splendour, thou shalt clothe thyself;

Psalm 29:4

The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty;

Psalm 66:5

Come and see the doings of God, - Fearful in deed toward the sons of men:

Psalm 68:7-8

O God! When thou camest forth before thy people, When thou didst stride through the wilderness, Selah.

Psalm 76:12

He cutteth off the spirit of nobles, he is of reverend majesty to the kings of the earth.

Psalm 93:1

Yahweh, hath become king, With majesty, is he clothed, - Clothed is Yahweh, With strength, hath he girded himself, Surely he hath fixed the world, It shall not be shaken.

Psalm 145:5

The splendour of the glory of thy majesty, shall they speak, and, thy wonders, will I utter.

Proverbs 25:23

A north wind, bringeth forth rain, and, a face stirred with indignation, a secretive tongue.

Isaiah 2:10

Enter into the rock, Or hide thee in the dust, - Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour.

Isaiah 2:19

And they shall enter into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of clay, - Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Micah 5:4

Then shall he stand, and tend his flock in the strength of Yahweh, In the excellency of the name of Yahweh his God, have they endured, - For, now, shall he be great unto the ends of the earth;

Nahum 1:3

Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm-wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-19

GOD, from Teman, cometh in, and, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour, hath covered the heavens, and, his praise, hath filled the earth:

Hebrews 1:3

Who, being an eradiated brightness of his glory, and an exact representation of his very being, also bearing up all things by the utterance of his power, purification of sins, having achieved, sat down on the right hand of the majesty in high places:

Hebrews 12:29

For, even our God, is a consuming fire.

Jude 1:25

Unto God alone our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, greatness, dominion, and authority, before all the by-gone age, and now, and unto all the coming ages. Amen!

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