Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- KJV Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- NKJV Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
- NASB Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth.
- NLT Your justice is eternal, and your instructions are perfectly true.
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Quick answer
God's righteousness is everlasting, and His law is truth. Both God's justice and His word are eternal and reliable.
Overview
Closing the TZADI stanza, the psalmist affirms that God's righteousness endures forever and that His law is truth itself. The word shares the unchanging, eternal character of God. Jesus echoed this when He prayed that God's word is truth, the very truth that sanctifies and saves His people (John 17:17; Ps. 119:160).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
- John 17:17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- Ps 119:151You are near, O LORD, and all Your commandments are true.
- Isa 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Eph 4:21Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—
- 2 Th 1:6–10After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
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