Psalms 68:34-35

68:34 Acknowledge God’s power, 1 

his sovereignty over Israel,

and the power he reveals in the skies! 2 

68:35 You are awe-inspiring, O God, as you emerge from your holy temple! 3 

It is the God of Israel 4  who gives the people power and strength.

God deserves praise! 5 

Isaiah 26:4

26:4 Trust in the Lord from this time forward, 6 

even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector! 7 

Matthew 6:13

6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, 8  but deliver us from the evil one. 9 

Matthew 28:18

28:18 Then Jesus came up and said to them, 10  “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

John 19:11

19:11 Jesus replied, “You would have no authority 11  over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you 12  is guilty of greater sin.” 13 

Revelation 19:1

19:1 After these things I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a vast throng in heaven, saying,

“Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

1 tn Heb “give strength to God.”

2 sn The language of v. 34 echoes that of Deut 33:26.

3 tn Heb “awesome [is] God from his holy places.” The plural of מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, “holy places”) perhaps refers to the temple precincts (see Ps 73:17; Jer 51:51).

4 tn Heb “the God of Israel, he.”

5 tn Heb “blessed [be] God.”

6 tn Or “forevermore.” For other uses of the phrase עֲדֵי־עַד (’ade-’ad) see Isa 65:18 and Pss 83:17; 92:7.

7 tc The Hebrew text has “for in Yah, the Lord, an everlasting rock.” Some have suggested that the phrase בְּיָהּ (beyah, “in Yah”) is the result of dittography. A scribe seeing כִּי יְהוָה (ki yÿhvah) in his original text would somehow have confused the letters and accidentally inserted בְּיָהּ between the words (bet and kaf [ב and כ] can be confused in later script phases). A number of English versions retain both divine names for emphasis (ESV, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, NLT). One of the Qumran texts (1QIsaa) confirms the MT reading as well.

8 tn Or “into a time of testing.”

9 tc Most mss (L W Θ 0233 Ë13 33 Ï sy sa Didache) read (though some with slight variation) ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν (“for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen”) here. The reading without this sentence, though, is attested by generally better witnesses (א B D Z 0170 Ë1 pc lat mae Or). The phrase was probably composed for the liturgy of the early church and most likely was based on 1 Chr 29:11-13; a scribe probably added the phrase at this point in the text for use in public scripture reading (see TCGNT 13-14). Both external and internal evidence argue for the shorter reading.

10 tn Grk “coming, Jesus spoke to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn, “saying”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

11 tn Or “power.”

12 tn Or “who delivered me over to you.”

13 tn Grk “has the greater sin” (an idiom).