Psalms 76:1
God is, known in Judah, In Israel, great is his Name;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
In Context
2Now hath come into Salem, his pavilion, And his dwelling-place into Zion.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:34Or did a god ever make trial of entering in to take unto him a nation out of the midst of a nation, by provings, by signs and by wonders and by fighting, and by a firm hand and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors,—according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
2 Chronicles 2:5And, the house which I am about to build, [must be] great,—for great is our God, above all gods.
Psalms 48:1Great is Yahweh, and worthy to be mightily praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.
Psalms 54:1O God! by thine own Name, save me, And, by thine own strength, wilt thou vindicate me?
Psalms 67:1God, be favorable to us and bless us, Cause his face to shine upon us. [Selah.]
Psalms 147:19Declaring his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his regulations, unto Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 76:1
This psalm seems to have been penned upon occasion of some great victory obtained by the church over some threatening enemy or other, and designed to grace the triumph. The LXX. calls it, "A song upon the Assyrians," whence many good interpreters conjecture that it was penned when Sennacherib's army, then besieging Jerusalem, was entirely cut off by a destroying angel in Hezekiah's time; and several passages in the psalm are very applicable to that work of wonder: but there was a religious triumph upon occasion of… Read the whole commentary →