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For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting And His faithfulness is to all generations.
Psalms 100:5 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • BSB For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
  • NKJV For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures 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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Quick answer

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 106:1Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
  • Ps 107:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
  • 1 Chr 16:34Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Jer 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.
  • Ps 136:1–26Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
  • Luke 1:50His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
  • Nah 1:7Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
  • Ps 118:1–4Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 119:68You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
  • 2 Chr 5:13when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,
  • Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
  • Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
  • Ps 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
  • Jer 33:20–21“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
  • Ezra 3:11They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
  • Ps 119:90–91Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
  • Ps 107:22Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.
  • Ps 107:8Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
  • Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
  • Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
  • Heb 6:13–18For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
  • Ps 107:15Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Ps 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
  • Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
  • Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 100:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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