For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
- KJV For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
- NKJV For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.
- NASB For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting And His faithfulness is to all generations.
- NLT For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.
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The LORD is good, His loving kindness endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations. His unchanging goodness is the reason for our praise.
Overview
The psalm closes by giving the grounds for all this worship: God's goodness, steadfast love, and enduring faithfulness. These covenant qualities assure every generation that God can be trusted. They are supremely displayed in Christ, in whom God's good and faithful love is fully revealed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 30
- Ps 106:1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- Ps 107:1Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- 1 Chr 16:34Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Jer 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
- Ps 136:1–26Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Luke 1:50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
- Nah 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
- Ps 118:1–4Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- Ps 119:68You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
- 2 Chr 5:13The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
- Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- Ps 89:1–2A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 85:10Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Jer 33:20–21“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Ezra 3:11And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
- Ps 119:90–91Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.
- Ps 107:22Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
- Ps 107:8Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Rom 15:8–9For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
- Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
- Heb 6:13–18When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
- Ps 107:15Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
- Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
- Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
- Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
- Ps 146:6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
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