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It Is Good to Sing Praises

Psalms 147:20

In 11 translations

BSB
He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!MT; DSS and LXX He has not made known to them His judgments
KJV
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
WEB
He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
ASV
He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
LSV
He has not done so to any nation, || As for judgments, they have not known them. Praise YAH!
YLT
He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!
DBY
He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for [his] judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
DRC147:9
He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.
GNV
He hath not dealt so with euery nation, neither haue they knowen his iudgements. Prayse ye the Lord.
JPS
He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Hallelujah.
LXXE147:9
He has not done so to any other nation; and he has not shewn them his judgments.Gr. every.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לֹ֘א עָ֤שָׂה כֵ֨ן ׀ לְכָל־גּ֗וֹי וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֥ים בַּל־יְדָע֗וּם הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ׃
LXX-Br147:9
Οὐκ ἐποίησεν οὕτως παντὶ ἔθνει, καὶ τὰ κρίματα αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐδήλωσεν αὐτοῖς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 4:32–34Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported? Has a people…
  • Deuteronomy 4:7–8For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set…
  • Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
  • 1 Peter 2:9–10But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but…
  • Romans 3:1–2What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
  • Ephesians 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
  • Proverbs 29:18Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
  • Acts 14:16In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
  • Isaiah 5:1–7I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a…
  • Acts 26:27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”
  • Matthew 21:33–41Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. When the…
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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  • 147:9 in some Bibles
  • 147:20 in most Bibles

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