Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord Most High is to be feared,
A great King over all the earth.

King James Version

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Holman Bible

For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,
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.

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord Most High is to be feared; 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.

Context Readings

God Our King

1 O clap your hands, all you people;
Shout to God with the voice of triumph and songs of joy.
2 
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.
3
He subdues peoples under us
And nations under our feet.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:21

You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Malachi 1:14

“But cursed is the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows [to offer] it, but sacrifices to the Lord a blemished or diseased thing! For I am a great King,” says the Lord of hosts, “and My name is to be [reverently and greatly] feared among the nations.”

Psalm 68:35


O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary;
The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people.
Blessed be God!

Nehemiah 1:5

And I said, “Please, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Deuteronomy 28:58

“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear and honor with reverence this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Psalm 22:27-29


All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,

Psalm 47:7


For God is the King of all the earth;
Sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding.

Psalm 65:5


By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

Psalm 66:3-5


Say to God, “How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to be obedient to You.

Psalm 76:12


He will cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome and feared by the kings of the earth.

Psalm 95:3


For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,

Psalm 99:3


Let them [reverently] praise Your great and awesome name;
Holy is He.

Psalm 145:6


People will speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And [with gratitude and submissive wonder] I will tell of Your greatness.

Daniel 7:13-14


“I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, on the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.

Nahum 1:6-7


Who can stand before His indignation [His great wrath]?
And who can stand up and endure the fierceness of His anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire
And the rocks are destroyed by Him.

Matthew 28:18

Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Philippians 2:9-11

For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

Revelation 6:16-17

and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb;

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