Psalm 76:4

Translations

Modern

You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.

Traditional

Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

Literal

…luminous are You and majestic, from the mountains of prey.

Latin

Illuminans tu mirabiliter a montibus æternis;

Original

Hebrew

English

You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.

Notes

Psalms 76:4

The victorious king’s splendor, glory, and majesty are greater than anything in the created order (Psalm 8:1; 29:4; 111:3).

Psalms 76:4–6

The psalmist praises God for his achievement and for his glorious majesty.

Psalms 76:1–12

This psalm appears to celebrate a victory. The victory might have been recent, such as over the Assyrians (see note on 76:1; see also Isaiah 37). Or, it might be remembering God's great acts of rescue in the past.

Related verses

Ezekiel 19:1–4
“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel
Daniel 7:17–28
‘These four great beasts are four kings who will arise from the earth.
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
Ezekiel 38:12–13
…in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
Ezekiel 19:6
He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Daniel 7:4–8
The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man and given the mind of a man.

Glossary

Asaph Music Neginah, Neginoth Psalms, Book of Zion

Topics

God: Glory of

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