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Psalms 147:20
20He has not done that for any other nation. They do not know his laws. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Psalms 147:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)He has done this for no other nation; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise the Lord!
Context of Psalms 147:20
18Then he commands it all to melt. He makes the warm wind blow, and the ice becomes streams of water. 19He sends his message to Jacob's descendants. He gives his rules and laws to Israel's people. He has not done that for any other nation. They do not know his laws. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Read all of Psalms 147Psalms 147:20 word by word
לֹ֘א עָ֤שָׂה כֵ֨ן׀ לְכָל־גּ֗וֹי וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֥ים בַּל־יְדָע֗וּם הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 147:20
- Deuteronomy 4:32Find out what happened many years ago. Think about everything that has happened since God created people to live on the earth. Go to anyone in the world and ask them. You will realize that nothing as great as this has ever happened before. People have never heard of anything like this.
- Proverbs 29:18If people do not hear God's message, there is no law to control them. But if someone obeys God's law, he is in a happy place.
- Isaiah 5:1Now I will sing a song for the person that I love. I will sing to him about his vineyard. ‘The one that I love had a vineyard. It was on a hill where the soil is good.
- Matthew 21:33Then Jesus said again to the Jewish leaders, ‘Listen to another story that I will tell you. There was a man who had his own farm. He planted vines in a garden to grow grapes there. He built a wall around the garden. He dug a hole in the ground for a winepress to make wine. He also built a tall building to watch over the garden. The man then found some farmers to work in the garden for him. Then he went away to another country.
- Acts 14:16In past times, God let people everywhere do what they wanted to do.
- Acts 26:27King Agrippa, do you believe what God's prophets taught? I know that you do believe them.’
- Romans 3:1So someone may ask, ‘Does it help a person if they are a Jew, rather than a Gentile? Does it help a person if someone has circumcised them?’
- Ephesians 2:12At that time, you did not know about Christ, God's special Messiah. You did not belong to the nation of Israel's people. You did not know about the good things that God had promised to his people. You were living in this world with nothing good to hope for. You were living without God's help.
- Ephesians 5:8Once your minds were completely in the dark. But now you belong to the Lord. As a result, you have become full of light. So now you must live as people who belong to the light.
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are not like that. You are a special group of people that God has chosen. You serve God like priests who serve a King. You are his own holy people who belong to him. He has taken you out of the dark place of sin, and he has brought you into his great light. He has done all this so that you can tell people how great he is.
Commentaries on Psalms 147:20
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20He hath not dealt so with any nation - He has favored Israel more than any other people by giving them his revealed truth. This was so. There was no nation in the ancient world so favored as the Hebrew people in this respect. There is no nation now so favored as the nation that has the revealed will of God - the Bible. The possession of that book gives a nation a vast superiority in all respects over all others. In laws, customs, morals, intelligence…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these are represented by his favours in the course of nature. The thawing word may represent the gospel of Christ, and the thawing wind the Spirit of Christ; for the Spirit is compared to the wind, Joh 3:8. Converting grace softens the heart that was hard…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20word … statutes … judgments: The Lord gave powerful words to Israel so that they might obey him (Psalm 105:45).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2019-20. This mighty ruler and benefactor of heaven and earth is such especially to His chosen people, to whom alone (De 4:32-34) He has made known His will, while others have been left in darkness. Therefore unite in the great hallelujah.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 147
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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