Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
- KJV They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
- NKJV They continue this day according to Your ordinances, For all are Your servants.
- NASB They stand this day by Your ordinances, For all things are Your servants.
- NLT Your regulations remain true to this day, for everything serves your plans.
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Quick answer
All creation continues by God's ordinances, for everything serves Him. The universe obeys and upholds His sovereign decree.
Overview
The psalmist observes that the created order persists each day in obedience to God's appointed laws, and that all things ultimately serve His purposes. God's word governs not only morality but the very fabric of the cosmos. This sovereign rule is fulfilled in Christ, by whom and for whom all things hold together (Col. 1:16-17; Heb. 1:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 48:13Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
- Ps 148:5–6Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.
- Jer 33:25This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
- Matt 8:9For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
- Gen 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Matt 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Judg 5:20From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
- Josh 10:12–13On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
- Deut 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
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