Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- BSB Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- 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
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- Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- John 17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
- Ps 119:151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
- Isa 51:8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
- Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
- Ps 119:144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
- Ps 36:6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
- Eph 4:21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
- 2 Th 1:6–10Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
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