Psalms 147 · Verse 20

Psalms 147:20

He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
Psalms 147:20, King James Version

Psalms 147:20 in other translations

BSBHe has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
WEBHe has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!
ASVHe hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
YLTHe hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!
DARBYHe hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!
BBEHe has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
WebsterHe hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

What does Psalms 147:20 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 147:19-20

19-20. This mighty ruler and benefactor of heaven and earth is such especially to His chosen people, to whom alone (De 4:32-34) He has made known His will, while others have been left in darkness. Therefore unite in the great hallelujah.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 20 And as for his judgments - The wondrous ordinances of his law, no nation had known them; and consequently, did not know the glorious things in futurity to which they referred.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 147:12-20

The church, like Jerusalem of old, built up and preserved by the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, is exhorted to praise him for all the benefits and blessings vouchsafed to her; and these are represented by his favours in the course of nature. The thawing word may represent the gospel of Christ, and the thawing wind the Spirit of Christ; for the Spirit is compared to the wind, Joh 3:8. Converting grace softens…

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Psalms 147:20 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹ֘אlo'notH3808
עָ֤שָׂה'A.sahhe has doneH6213
כֵ֨ן\׀khenthusH3651
לְכָל\־le.kholfor anyH3605
גּ֗וֹיGoynationH1471
וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֥יםu.mish.pa.Timand judgmentsH4941
בַּל\־bal-notH1077
יְדָע֗וּםye.da.'Umthey have known themH3045
הַֽלְלוּ\־ha.lu-praiseH1984
יָֽהּ\׃YahYahwehH3050

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 147:20

  • Deuteronomy 4:32-34

    For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Deuteronomy 4:7-8

    For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

  • Romans 3:1-2

    What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

  • Ephesians 2:12

    That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

  • 1 Peter 2:9-10

    But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

  • Ephesians 5:8

    For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

  • Isaiah 5:1-7

    Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? …

  • Acts 14:16

    Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

  • Proverbs 29:18

    Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

  • Acts 26:27

    King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

  • Matthew 21:33-41

    Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. …

  • Acts 26:18

    To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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not dealt so.
De 4:32-34; Pr 29:18; Isa 5:1-7; Mt 21:33-41; Ac 14:16; 26:27,18
Ro 3:1,2; Eph 2:12; 5:8; 1Pe 2:9,10

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Context

  • Psalms 147:19

    He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

  • Psalms 147:20

    He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.

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Psalms 147:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No ha hecho esto con toda gente; y no conocieron sus juicios. Aleluya.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il n’a fait ainsi à aucune nation; et ses ordonnances, elles ne les ont pas connues. Louez Jah!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Keiner Nation hat er also getan; und die Rechte, sie haben sie nicht gekannt. Lobet Jehova!