He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
Parallel translations
- KJV He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
- BSB He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
- NKJV He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.
- NASB He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree, and it will not pass away.
- NLT He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 33:25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- Jer 31:35–36Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
- Job 38:33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
- Ps 89:37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
- Ps 119:90–91Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
- Job 38:10–11marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
- Isa 54:9“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Prov 8:27–29When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
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