God’s Word Translation
Psalms 147:20
20He has done nothing like this for any other nation. The other nations do not know the decisions he has handed down. Hallelujah!
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
18He sends out his word and melts his hailstones. He makes wind blow ⌞and⌟ water flow. 19He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judicial decisions to Israel. He has done nothing like this for any other nation. The other nations do not know the decisions he has handed down. Hallelujah!
Read all of Psalms 147Psalms 147:20 word by word
לֹ֘א עָ֤שָׂה כֵ֨ן׀ לְכָל־גּ֗וֹי וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֥ים בַּל־יְדָע֗וּם הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 147:20
- Deuteronomy 4:32Search the distant past, long before your time. Start from the very day God created people on earth. Search from one end of heaven to the other. Has anything as great as this ever happened before, or has anything like it ever been heard of?
- Proverbs 29:18Without prophetic vision people run wild, but blessed are those who follow ⌞God’s⌟ teachings.
- Isaiah 5:1Let me sing a lovesong to my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
- Matthew 21:33“Listen to another illustration. A landowner planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, made a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to vineyard workers and went on a trip.
- Acts 14:16In the past God allowed all people to live as they pleased.
- Acts 26:27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you believe them!”
- Romans 3:1Is there any advantage, then, in being a Jew? Or is there any value in being circumcised?
- Ephesians 2:12Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges ⌞God made in his⌟ promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
- Ephesians 5:8Once you lived in the dark, but now the Lord has filled you with light. Live as children who have light.
- 1 Peter 2:9However, you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, people who belong to God. You were chosen to tell about the excellent qualities of God, who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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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