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Isaiah 25:3

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

KJV

Super hoc laudabit te populus fortis ; civitas gentium robustarum timebit te :

Vulgate

διὰ τοῦτο εὐλογήσει σε ὁ λαὸς ὁ πτωχός, καὶ πόλεις ἀνθρώπων ἀδικουμένων εὐλογήσουσίν σε.

LXX

Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

ASV

עַל כֵּ֖ן יְכַבְּד֣וּ/ךָ עַם עָ֑ז קִרְיַ֛ת גּוֹיִ֥ם עָרִיצִ֖ים יִירָאֽוּ/ךָ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
י
y
noun · 1849×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
נִכְבָּ֔ד
nkbd
verb · 115×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עָ֑ז
'z
noun · 24×
עָרִיצִ֖ים
'rytsym
adjective · 20×
קִרְיָ֖ה
qryh
noun · 29×
תִּירָ֖א
tyr'
verb · 325×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

God showed himself, by the fall of man, as patient, benign, merciful, mighty to save. Man is therefore most ungrateful, if, unmindful of his own lot, and of the benefits held out to him, he do not acknowledge divine grace. 1. Long-suffering therefore was God, when man became a defaulter, as foreseeing that victory which should be granted to him through the Word. For, when stren…

Cross-references

  • Heb 6:19 — Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
  • Isa 49:23 — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I
  • Jer 15:21 — And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
  • Ps 30:11 — Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
  • Ps 35:18 — I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
  • Ps 46:10 — Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • Rev 15:4 — Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
  • Zech 14:9 — And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
  • Zech 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast