For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- KJV For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
- NKJV For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds.
- NASB For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.
- NLT For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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God's loving kindness is great above the heavens, and his faithfulness reaches the skies.
Overview
David celebrates the immeasurable greatness of God's steadfast love and faithfulness, towering beyond the heavens. These twin attributes form the ground of all his praise and confidence. The boundless hesed and faithfulness of God are supremely demonstrated in Christ, in whom God's promises find their yes and amen.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Eph 2:4–7But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
- Ps 103:11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
- Ps 89:2For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
- Ps 89:5The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.
- Ps 85:10Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
- Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Ps 113:4The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.
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