Psalms 111:2

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Psalms 111:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

3 Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.

4 He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

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Psalms 92:5

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

Psalms 104:24

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalms 139:14

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Job 5:9

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Job 9:10

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Job 26:12

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

Job 26:13

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 26:14

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Job 38:5

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Job 38:12

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Job 38:16

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Job 38:19

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Job 38:20

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

Job 38:21

Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:24

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:26

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:29

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Job 38:30

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Job 38:31

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Job 38:34

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Job 38:38

when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

Job 38:39

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 38:40

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Job 41:1

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 41:2

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Job 41:5

Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Job 41:6

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8

If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

Job 41:11

Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:12

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Job 41:13

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Job 41:14

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

Job 41:15

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Job 41:16

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17

They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

Job 41:18

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19

Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

Job 41:20

Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

Job 41:21

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

Job 41:22

Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

Job 41:23

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

Job 41:24

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Job 41:26

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Job 41:27

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

Job 41:29

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31

He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

Job 41:32

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Job 41:33

Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34

He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Jeremiah 32:17

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

Jeremiah 32:18

You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

Jeremiah 32:19

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Daniel 4:3

How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation.

Ephesians 1:19

and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

Ephesians 2:7

in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9

not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Revelation 15:3

and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

Psalms 77:11

I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.

Psalms 77:12

I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.

Psalms 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

Psalms 107:43

Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

Psalms 143:5

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

Job 37:7

He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

1 Peter 1:10

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,

1 Peter 1:11

trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

1 Peter 1:12

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

Psalms 92:4

For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

Proverbs 18:1

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions.

Proverbs 24:14

Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 8:6

The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,