They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
- BSB Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
- 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 48:13Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
- Ps 148:5–6Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
- Jer 33:25Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- Matt 8:9For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
- Gen 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Matt 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
- Judg 5:20They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- Josh 10:12–13Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
- Deut 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
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