Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (76-5) Glorious art Thou and excellent, coming down from the mountains of prey.

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Passages linked to Psalms 76:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 19:1-4 “Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs. She brought up one of her cubs. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
  • Daniel 7:17-28 ‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’ “Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was different from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of bronze; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows. I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them, until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces. As for the ten horns, ten kings will arise out of this kingdom. Another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former, and he will put down three kings. He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. “ ‘But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end. The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’ “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
  • Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
  • Ezekiel 19:6 He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.
  • Ezekiel 38:12-13 to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’ Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
  • Daniel 7:4-8 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man. A man’s heart was given to it. “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’ “After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it. “After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns. “I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain It is farther added, (verse 4th,) that God is…

It is farther added, (verse 4th,) that God is more glorious and terrible than the mountains of prey By the mountains of prey, is meant kingdoms distinguished for their violence and extortion. We know that from the beginning, he who exercised himself most in robbery and pillage, was the man who most enlarged his borders and became greatest. The Psalmist, therefore, here compares those great kings, who had acquired large dominions by violence and the shedding of human blood, to savage beasts, who live only upon prey, and their kingdoms to mountains covered with forests, which are inhabited by beasts inured to live by the destruction of other animals. The enemies of God’s ancient people had been accustomed to make violent and furious assaults upon Jerusalem; but it is affirmed that God greatly surpassed them all in power that the faithful might not be overwhelmed with terror.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He compareth the kingdoms full of extortion and rapine…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 76:4 Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou, O God; to whom he directeth his speech…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thou - O God. Than - The greatest kings…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Than the mountains of prey.] This is…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 76:4. Thou — O God, to whom he…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thou art more glorious and excellent - The word…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Mountains of prey—The verse is elliptical and obscure,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. A difficult verse. Two renderings are grammatically possible:…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Thou art . . .—Better, Splendid art thou,…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 4. Thou art more glorious and excellent than…
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 76:4-6 The psalmist praises God for his achievement and…

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