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English Standard Version

Daniel 4:3

How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Converts;   God;   Heathen;   Miracles;   Testimony;   Thompson Chain Reference - Eternal;   Kingdom;   Mutability-Immutability;   Wonders;   The Topic Concordance - Endurance;   Kingdom of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Eternity of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Daniel, Book of;   Dominion;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baltasar;   Medicine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Kingdom of God (or Heaven);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Generation;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Kingdom;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Antichrist;   Eternity;   How;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Kingdom of God;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 23;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How great are his miracles,and how mighty his wonders!His kingdom is an eternal kingdom,and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Hebrew Names Version
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
King James Version
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
New American Standard Bible
"How great are His signs And how mighty are His miracles! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.
New Century Version
His wonderful acts are great, and his miracles are mighty. His kingdom goes on forever, and his rule continues from now on.
Amplified Bible
"How great are His signs And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And His dominion is from generation to generation.
Geneva Bible (1587)
How great are his signes, and how mightie are his wonders! his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How great are His signs And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom And His dominion is from generation to generation.
Berean Standard Bible
How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and His dominion endures from generation to generation.
Contemporary English Version
His miracles are mighty and marvelous. He will rule forever, and his kingdom will never end.
Complete Jewish Bible
So I ordered all the sages of Bavel to present themselves to me, so that they could tell me the interpretation of the dream.
Darby Translation
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Easy-to-Read Version
God has done amazing miracles! He has done powerful miracles! His kingdom continues forever; his rule will continue for all generations.
George Lamsa Translation
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Good News Translation
"How great are the wonders God shows us! How powerful are the miracles he performs! God is king forever; he will rule for all time.
Lexham English Bible
How great are his signs and wonders, how strong is his kingdom, an everlasting kingdom; and his sovereignty is from generation to generation.
Literal Translation
How great are His signs! And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule is from generation to generation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O how greate are his tokes, & how mightie are his wonders? His kyngdome is an euerlastinge kyngdome, and his power lasteth for euer and euer.
American Standard Version
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Bible in Basic English
How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
King James Version (1611)
How great are his signes? and how mighty are his wonders? his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and his dominion is fro generation to generation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O how great are his signes, and howe mightie are his wonders? his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, & his dominion is fro generation to generation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
English Revised Version
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
World English Bible
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
therfor it pleside me to preche hise myraclis, for tho ben greet, and hise merueils, for tho ben stronge; and his rewme is an euerlastynge rewme, and his power is in generacioun and in to generacioun.
Update Bible Version
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Webster's Bible Translation
How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation.
New English Translation
"How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, and his authority continues from one generation to the next."
New King James Version
How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.
New Living Translation
How great are his signs, how powerful his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, his rule through all generations.
New Life Bible
How great are the special things He shows us! How powerful are His wonderful works! His nation lasts forever, and His rule is for all people for all time.
New Revised Standard
How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his sovereignty is from generation to generation.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His signs, how great! and, his wonders, how mighty! His kingdom, is an age-abiding kingdom, and, his dominion, lasteth from generation to generation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
@@4:3 [3:100]~~ [fn] His signs, because they are great: and his wonders, because they are mighty: and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, I and his power to all generations.
Revised Standard Version
How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Young's Literal Translation
His signs how great! and His wonders how mighty! His kingdom [is] a kingdom age-during, and His rule [is] with generation and generation.
THE MESSAGE
"His miracles are staggering, his wonders are surprising. His kingdom lasts and lasts, his sovereign rule goes on forever.

Contextual Overview

1 King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. 3 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

great: Daniel 6:27, Deuteronomy 4:34, Psalms 71:19, Psalms 71:20, Psalms 72:18, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 86:10, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 104:24, Psalms 105:27, Isaiah 25:1, Isaiah 28:29, Romans 11:33, Hebrews 2:4

his kingdom: Daniel 4:17, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 6:26, Daniel 7:14, Daniel 7:27, Psalms 66:7, Psalms 145:13, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 10:10, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33, 1 Timothy 1:17, Hebrews 1:8, Revelation 11:15

is from: Job 25:2, 1 Peter 4:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:41 - General Exodus 15:18 - General 1 Chronicles 29:11 - thine is the Job 9:10 - wonders Job 36:24 - magnify Psalms 107:8 - his wonderful Psalms 111:2 - works Jeremiah 10:6 - thou Ezekiel 36:23 - and the heathen Daniel 2:37 - power Daniel 4:37 - I Nebuchadnezzar John 10:29 - is greater Acts 2:11 - wonderful Romans 11:36 - of him Revelation 15:1 - I saw Revelation 15:3 - Great

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord ."
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord , I give to you.
1 Kings 17:7
And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
Nehemiah 13:6
While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders!.... They are great, very great, exceeding great; so great that it cannot be said, nor even conceived how great they are, what a display of wisdom, power, and goodness is in them; they are wonderful beyond expression and conception; and so strong and mighty as not to be resisted and made void by all the powers of nature, earth, or hell; and if this may be said of his works of providence, and his miracles of that, how much more of his works and miracles of grace!

his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; Nebuchadnezzar's reign, though a long one, had an end, and so have all others; but the kingdom of God is for ever; the kingdom of providence, and also of grace; the kingdom of his Son, the Messiah, as in Daniel 2:44 from whence Nebuchadnezzar had learnt this:

and his dominion is from generation to generation; or, "with generation and generation" a; it goes along, and continues with all generations, and will do so to the end of time.

a עם דר ודר "cum generatione et generatione", Pagninus, Montanus, Michaelis; "cum omni aetate", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How great are his signs! - How great and wonderful are the things by which he makes himself known in this manner! The allusion is doubtless to what had occurred to himself - the event by which a monarch of such state and power had been reduced to a condition so humble. With propriety he would regard this as a signal instance of the Divine interposition, and as adapted to give him an exalted view of the supremacy of the true God.

And how mighty are his wonders! - The wonderful events which he does; the things fitted to produce admiration and astonishment. Compare Psalms 72:18; Psalms 86:10; Isaiah 25:1.

His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom - Nebuchadnezzar was doubtless led to this reflection by what had occurred to him. He, the most mighty monarch then on earth, had seen that his throne had no stability; he had seen that God had power at his will to bring him down from his lofty seat, and to transfer his authority to other hands; and he was naturally led to reflect that the throne of God was the only one that was stable and permanent. He could not but be convinced that God reigned over all, and that his kingdom was not subject to the vicissitudes which occur in the kingdoms of this world. There have been few occurrences on the earth better adapted to teach this lesson than this.

And his dominion is from generation to generation - That is, it is perpetual. It is not liable to be arrested as that of man is, by death; it does not pass over from one family to another as an earthly scepter often does. The same scepter; the same system of laws; the same providential arrangements; the same methods of reward and punishment, have always existed under his government, and will continue to do so to the end of time. There is, perhaps, no more sublime view that can be taken of the government of God than this. All earthly princes die; all authority lodged in the hands of an earthly monarch is soon withdrawn. No one is so mighty that he can prolong his own reign; and no one can make his own authority extend to the next generation. Earthly governments, therefore, however mighty, are of short duration; and history is made up of the records of a great number of such administrations, many of them exceedingly brief, and of very various character. The scepter falls from the hand of the monarch, never to be resumed by him again; another grasps it to retain it also but a little time, and then he passes away. But the dominion of God is in all generations the same. This generation is under the government of the same Sovereign who reigned when Semiramis or Numa lived; and though the scepter has long since fallen from the hands of Alexander and the Caesars, yet the same God who ruled in their age is still on the throne.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 4:3. How great are his signs! — There are no preternatural signs like his! His wonders - miraculous interferences, are mighty - they surpass all human power. He is the Sovereign of all kings, and his dominion is everlasting; and every generation is a proof of his all-governing influence. These are very fine sentiments, and show how deeply his mind was impressed with the majesty of God.


 
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