Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
And as for His ordinances, they have
King James Version
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Holman Bible
they do not know
Hallelujah!
International Standard Version
He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!
A Conservative Version
He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye LORD.
Amplified
He has not dealt this way with any [other] nation;
They have not known [understood, appreciated, heeded, or cherished] His ordinances.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
Bible in Basic English
He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
Darby Translation
He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
Julia Smith Translation
He did not thus to every nation: and judgments they knew them not Praise ye Jah.
King James 2000
He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has not done so for any nation, and they do not know [his] ordinances. Praise Yah.
Modern King James verseion
He has not done so with any nation; and they have not known His judgments. Praise Jehovah!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
NET Bible
He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the Lord!
New Heart English Bible
He has not done this for just any nation. They do not know his ordinances. Praise the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!
Webster
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
World English Bible
He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!
Interlinear
Mishpat
Yada`
References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 147:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Providence
19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:32-34
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Romans 3:1-2
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Matthew 21:33-41
Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
Acts 14:16
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
Acts 26:27
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
1 Peter 2:9-10
But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: