They stand this day by Your ordinances, For all things are Your servants.
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.
- 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.
- 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 48:13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
- Ps 148:5–6Let them praise Yahweh’s name, For he commanded, and they were created.
- Jer 33:25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- Matt 8:9For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
- Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- Judg 5:20From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.
- Josh 10:12–13Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
- Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
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