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Psalm 111:6

He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

4He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. The LORD is gracious and merciful.
5He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
6He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
7The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.
8They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
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The gift of other nations’ land makes God’s power concrete here, while leaving a reader to reckon with the conquest behind Israel’s inheritance.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 2:8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.Both passages describe God giving an inheritance involving the nations, with God himself as the source of the gift.
Psalm 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.Psalm 111 celebrates the inheritance God gave; Psalm 80 recalls nations driven out as God planted the vine brought from Egypt.
Psalm 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.Both credit God with establishing his people where other nations had lived, with Psalm 44 naming the displacement and affliction involved.
Joshua 10:13–14The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in …Psalm 111 praises mighty works behind Israel’s inheritance; Joshua recounts the sun standing still during battle.
Joshua 3:14–17When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,Psalm 111 celebrates God’s gift to his people; the supplied Joshua verse describes the people setting out to cross the Jordan.
Psalm 78:12–72He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.Both passages speak of God’s works being seen by his people, with Psalm 78 locating marvelous deeds in Egypt.
Joshua 6:20So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall …Psalm 111 names the gift of nations’ heritage; Joshua records the fall of a city’s wall and its capture.
Deuteronomy 4:32–38For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, …Both turn attention toward past greatness, though the supplied Deuteronomy verse does not yet specify the event being remembered.
1 Chronicles 17:19LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.Both passages connect God’s great deeds with his making those deeds known.
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You do not have to turn Israel’s inheritance into a promise of personal success to find reason for praise here. God made his power known through his works.

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