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Psalms 97:6–7
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Psalms 97:6
6The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
6The heauens declare his righteousnesse: and all the people see his glory.
Psalms 97:7
7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
7*Confounded be all they that serue grauen images, that boast themselues of idoles: worship him all yee gods.
- Exod.20.4. Leuit. 26 1. Deut.5.8. Heb. 1.6.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 97:6
To make known, announce, or show clearly.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 97:7
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
Confounded
Confused, perplexed, mixed in disorder, dismayed, or put to shame.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To work for, obey, attend, minister to, worship, or fulfil a purpose.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To glory, speak proudly, or display what one possesses or has done.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Images or objects of false worship; figuratively, false objects of trust or devotion.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 6
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Open the full verse study18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
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Open the full verse study1THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
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Open the full verse study6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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Open the full verse study47The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
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Open the full verse study5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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Open the full verse study6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
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Open the full verse study3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
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Open the full verse study4O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
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Open the full verse study2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
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Open the full verse study14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
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Open the full verse study9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
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Open the full verse study2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
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Open the full verse study2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
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Open the full verse study21But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
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Open the full verse study2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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Open the full verse study5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
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Open the full verse study3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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Open the full verse study6And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
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Open the full verse study17¶ They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
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Open the full verse study1YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
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Open the full verse study11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
13And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
14And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
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Open the full verse study4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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Open the full verse study29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Open the full verse study9¶ They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
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Open the full verse study12Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
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Open the full verse study13The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
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Open the full verse study15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study8Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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Open the full verse study20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
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Open the full verse study18Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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Open the full verse study8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
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