New Revised Standard Version
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.

Contemporary English Version
We don't deserve praise! The LORD alone deserves all of the praise, because of his love and faithfulness.

New American Bible
Not to us, LORD, not to us but to your name give glory because of your mercy and faithfulness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

A.

3108, B.C.

896. This seems to be a triumphal song, in which the victory is wholly ascribed to Jehovah; and to none can it be referred with more propriety than to that of Jehoshaphat over the confederated forces of his enemies.

2 Chronicles 20:1 After this the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites, were gathered together to fight against Josaphat.

unto us

Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

Psalm 79:9,10 Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake: . . .

Joshua 7:9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

Isaiah 48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

Ezekiel 20:14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.

Ezekiel 36:32 It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O house of Israel.

Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken, and do: delay not, for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people.

Ephesians 1:6 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

Revelation 4:10,11 The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: . . .

for thy mercy

Psalm 61:7 He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

Psalm 89:1,2 Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. [2] The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. . . .

Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Romans 15:8,9 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: . . .