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Psalm 65:6
By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.
4Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.
6By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.
7You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
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Mountains that dwarf human strength become, in this song, evidence of God's power, turning attention from their vast size to the One who forms them.
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Psalm 93:1The LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.Both describe God as armed with strength and connect his power with the making or establishing of the world.
Habakkuk 3:6He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.Mountains display God's power in both passages: he forms them in the psalm, and they crumble before him in Habakkuk.
Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places …Both name God as the one who forms the mountains, with Amos identifying him as the God of Armies.
Isaiah 26:8Yes, in the way of your judgments, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.The connection is broad: both address God, though Isaiah speaks of waiting for his judgments and the psalm praises his creative strength.
Psalm 119:90Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.Both speak to God about his work in creation: forming the mountains and establishing the earth that remains.
Micah 6:2Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with …Mountains appear in both passages, as works God forms in the psalm and as hearers of his indictment in Micah.
Psalm 65:12The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.Within the same song, mountains display God's strength, while hills are pictured as clothed with gladness.
Psalm 95:4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.Both connect the mountains with God: he forms them by his power, and their heights belong to him.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.Both mention mountains while addressing God, though Jonah describes descending to their bottoms rather than their formation.
John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”Both speak of God's work, though the psalm names mountain formation and Jesus speaks of his Father's ongoing work.
Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.Both declare God's power: the psalm describes him forming mountains, while Job speaks of the Almighty as exalted in power.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who …Both picture strength as something God wears or takes up: the psalm describes him armed, and Isaiah pleads for him to put on strength.
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The strength that forms mountains belongs to God. Your praise rests on who he is: the Maker whose power gives even the heights their shape.
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