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21 thou hast done all these great things, for thy word, and by thine heart (for thy word’s sake, and according to thy heart), so that thou madest those known to thy servant.

22 Therefore, Lord God, thou art made great, for none is like thee, nor there is no God except thee, in all things which we have heard with our ears. (And so, Lord God, thou art truly great, and from everything that we have heard with our ears, no one is like thee, nor is there any God except thee.)

23 Soothly what folk in (the) earth is as the people of Israel, for which the Lord God went, that he should again-buy it to him into a people, and should set to himself a name, and should do to it great things, and horrible, on [the] earth, in casting out thereof the folks, and gods thereof, from the face of thy people, which thou again-boughtest to thee from Egypt? (Yea, what nation on earth is like the people of Israel, for whom the Lord God went, and redeemed, or rescued, them in order to be a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for them great and wonderful things on the earth, in throwing out from here the nations, and their gods, from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed, or rescued, for thyself from Egypt?)

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21 For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant.

22 “How great(A) you are,(B) Sovereign Lord! There is no one like(C) you, and there is no God(D) but you, as we have heard with our own ears.(E) 23 And who is like your people Israel(F)—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name(G) for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders(H) by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed(I) from Egypt?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 17:21; Hebrew wonders for your land and before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt, from the nations and their gods.