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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 22:3

But, thou, art holy, Who inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God Continued...;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holiness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Habitation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Praise (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 23;   Every Day Light - Devotion for January 26;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you are holy,enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Yisra'el.
King James Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
English Standard Version
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
New Century Version
You sit as the Holy One. The praises of Israel are your throne.
New English Translation
You are holy; you sit as king receiving the praises of Israel.
Amplified Bible
But You are holy, O You who are enthroned in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].
New American Standard Bible
Yet You are holy, You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
World English Bible
But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You are holy,Enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Yet you are the holy God, ruling from your throne and praised by Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
My God, by day I call to you, but you don't answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.
Darby Translation
And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
God, you are the Holy One. You sit as King upon the praises of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
For thou art holy, and Israel dwells under thy glory.
Good News Translation
But you are enthroned as the Holy One, the one whom Israel praises.
Lexham English Bible
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Literal Translation
But You are holy, being enthroned on Israel's praises.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet dwellest thou in the Sanctuary, o thou worshipe of Israel.
American Standard Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
O my God, I call by day, but Thou answerest not; and at night, and there is no surcease for me.
King James Version (1611)
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yet thou most holy: sittest to receaue the prayers of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary.
English Revised Version
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thou, the preisyng of Israel, dwellist in holynesse;
Update Bible Version
But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
New King James Version
But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
New Living Translation
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
New Life Bible
Yet You are holy. The praises Israel gives You are Your throne.
New Revised Standard
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-4) But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
And Thou [art] holy, Sitting -- the Praise of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
And you! Are you indifferent, above it all, leaning back on the cushions of Israel's praise? We know you were there for our parents: they cried for your help and you gave it; they trusted and lived a good life.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation? 2 My God! I keep crying - By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me. 3 But, thou, art holy, Who inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 In thee, trusted our fathers, They trusted, and thou didst deliver them; 5 Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale. 6 But, I, am a worm and no one, a reproach of men, and despised of a people; 7 All that see me, laugh at me, - They open wide the mouth, They shake the head: - 8 He should trust in Yahweh - let him deliver him, - Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him. 9 For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother; 10 Upon thee, was I cast from the time I was born, From the womb of my mother, my GOD, hast thou been.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But: Psalms 145:17, Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 4:8

that: Psalms 50:23, Psalms 65:1, Deuteronomy 10:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - song Song of Solomon 2:14 - for sweet Revelation 15:4 - thou only

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
So Abraham took Ishmael his son and all born of his house and all bought with his silver - every male among the men of the house of Abraham, - and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on this selfsame day, according to that which God had spoken with him.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up early in the morning - and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar, - putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth, - so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the pieces of wood for an ascending-sacrifice, and mounted and went his way unto the place which God had named to him.
Genesis 22:4
It was, on the third day, that Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:17
That I will, richly bless, thee, and, abundantly multiply, thy seed, as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea, - that thy seed may take possession of the gate of his foes:
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they mounted, and went on their way together unto Beer-sheba, - and Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba.
Psalms 119:60
I have hastened, and not delayed, to keep thy commandments.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do, - for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.
Matthew 10:37
He that loveth father or mother above me, is not, worthy, of me, - and, he that loveth son or daughter above me, is not, worthy, of me;
Luke 14:26
If anyone cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, further also, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou [art] holy,.... Which may be considered either as an argument with his God, why he should hear and answer him, since he is holy, just, and faithful; he has promised, when any call upon him in a day of trouble, he will hear and answer them, and will be glorified by them; this Christ did, and therefore pleads his faithfulness to his promise: or rather a reason quieting him under divine desertion, and a sense of divine wrath, that God was righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works; and that whereas he was the surety of his people, and had all their sins on him, it was perfectly agreeable to the holiness and justice of God to treat him in the manner he did; yea, it was done to declare his righteousness, that he might appear to be just, while he is the justifier of him that believes in him;

[O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel; either the place where Israel offered the sacrifices of praise to God, the tabernacle or temple, the house of prayer and praise in which Jehovah dwelt: or the true Israel of God praising him, who are formed for himself, and called by his grace to show forth his praises; among whom he takes up his residence: or else the praises themselves; and so the phrase denotes God's gracious acceptance of them, and well pleasedness in them, signified by his inhabiting of them, and the frequent and constant ascription of them to him: and perhaps respect may be had chiefly to the praises of his people for providing such a Saviour for them, settling him in the fulness of time, and not sparing him, but delivering him up into the hands of justice and death for them; and for giving all things freely with him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But thou art holy - Thou art righteous and blameless. This indicates that the sufferer had still unwavering confidence in God. Though his prayer seemed not to be heard, and though he was not delivered, he was not disposed to blame God. He believed that God was righteous, though he received no answer; he doubted not that there was some sufficient reason why he was not answered. This is applicable, not only to the Redeemer, in whom it was most fully illustrated, but also to the people of God everywhere. It expresses a state of mind such as all true believers in God have - confidence in him, whatever may be their trials; confidence in him, though the answer to their prayers may be long delayed; confidence in him, though their prayers should seem to be unanswered. Compare the notes at Job 13:15.

O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel - That dwellest where praise is celebrated; that seemest to dwell in the midst of praises. The language here refers to the praises offered in the tabernacle or temple. God was supposed to dwell there, and he was surrounded by those who praised him. The sufferer looks upon him as worshipped by the multitude of his people; and the feeling of his heart is, that though he was himself a sufferer - a great and apparently unpitied sufferer - though he, by his afflictions, was not permitted to unite in those lofty praises, yet he could own that God was worthy of all those songs, and that it was proper that they should be addressed to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:3. But thou art holy — Though I be not heard, even while I cry earnestly, yet I cannot impute any fault or unkindness to my Maker; for thou art holy, and canst do nothing but what is right. This is the language of profound resignation, in trials the most difficult to be borne.

Inhabitest the praises of Israel. — Thou dwellest in the sanctuary where the praises, thanksgivings, and sacrifices of thy people are continually offered.


 
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