Psalms 147:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 147:5

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

KJV

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ASV

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.

WEB

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

YLT

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power, Of His understanding there is no narration.

DBT

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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23 verses on the floor

Isaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Psalms 145:3
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
Nahum 1:3
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Psalms 139:17–18
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Psalms 96:4
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

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We are furnished with matter for praise, for God is to be glorified, 1. As the God of nature, and so he is very great,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) may well enough be applied to the first building and fortifying of Jerusalem in his time, and the gathering in of those that had been out-casts in Saul's time. The Septuagint divides it into two; and we may divide it into the first and second part, but both of the same import. We are called upon to praise God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Their bulk and power are very great; but he calleth them all by their names, which shows his dominion over them and the command he has them at, to make what use of them he pleases. They are his servants, his soldiers; he musters them, he marshals them; they come and go at his bidding, and all their motions are under his direction.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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