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Psalms 138:2

I bow down while I look towards your sacred temple, and I thank you [MTY] because you faithfully love us and faithfully do all that you have promised. You have shown that both you [MTY] and what you have promised to do are greater than anything else.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

In Context

1Yahweh, I thank you with all my inner being. I sing to praise you in front of the idols of false gods to ridicule/belittle them.

3On the day when I called out to you, you answered me; you enabled me to be strong and brave.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:20And now Yahweh has done what he promised to do. I have become the king of Israel to succeed my father, and I am ruling my people, like Yahweh promised. I have arranged for this temple to be built for us Israelis to worship Yahweh, the God, to whom we Israelis belong.

1 Kings 8:29Please keep protecting this temple night and day. This is the place about which you have said, ‘I will always be there.’ I request that you listen to me whenever I turn toward this temple and pray.

Psalms 5:8Yahweh, because you act righteously toward me, show me what is right for me to do. Because I have many enemies, show me clearly what you want me to do.

Psalms 36:5Yahweh, your faithful love for us reaches as high as the heavens, you faithfully do what you have promised; it is as though your doing that extends up to the clouds.

Psalms 56:10I praise/thank you that you do what you have promised; Yahweh, I will always praise you for that [DOU].

Psalms 86:15But Lord, you always are mercifully and kind; you do not become angry quickly, you faithfully love us very much and always do for us what you have promised to do.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 138:2-6

Grateful Praise. 1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. 3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord , when they hear the words of thy mouth. 5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord : for great is the… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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Study Psalms 138:2

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