Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth.
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.
- BSB Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- NKJV 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 Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
- Ps 119:151You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
- Isa 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
- Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- Eph 4:21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
- 2 Th 1:6–10Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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