Parallel Verses
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.
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.
American Standard Version
He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
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!)
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 makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 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.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:32-34
Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.
Romans 3:1-2
How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
Isaiah 5:1-7
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Matthew 21:33-41
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Acts 14:16
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
Acts 26:27
King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.
Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.