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Psalm 76:4

Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

2His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.
3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
5Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
6At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
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The praise rises above “mountains of game,” in a scene where weapons break and warriors die under God’s rebuke.

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Ezekiel 19:1–4“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,The link is slight: Ezekiel laments Israel’s princes, while the psalm praises God amid the defeat of warriors.
Daniel 7:17–28‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.Daniel identifies his animals as kings; the psalm mentions game without making that identification, so the shared animal language has limits.
Ezekiel 38:12–13to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the …Ezekiel describes an intent to seize plunder; Psalm 76’s surrounding verses describe valiant men lying plundered under God’s power.
Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities …Jeremiah depicts a destroyer advancing toward desolation; the psalm’s setting also involves warfare, though there God breaks the weapons.
Daniel 7:4–8“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet as …Animal imagery is the narrow link: Daniel describes a lionlike creature, while the psalm compares God’s excellence with mountains of game.
Ezekiel 19:6He went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion. He learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.Ezekiel describes a lion catching prey and devouring men; the psalm mentions game, but does not describe such a hunt.
Song of Songs 4:8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the …Both passages mention mountains associated with wild animals: game in the psalm and lions and leopards in Song of Songs.
Daniel 7:3Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.Both texts mention animals, but Daniel’s creatures rise from the sea, while the psalm speaks of mountains of game.
Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing …The connection is broad: the psalm addresses God’s glory, while Revelation depicts a multitude before the throne and the Lamb.
Psalm 18:3I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.Both psalms join praise of God with deliverance from armed opposition, explicit in Psalm 18 and surrounding Psalm 76:4.
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God’s glory exceeds the mountains named here; the surrounding verses show armed strength collapsing at his rebuke. His excellence is greater than the strength displayed on earth.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).