For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
- KJV For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
- BSB For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is trustworthy.
- NKJV For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in truth.
- NASB For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in faithfulness.
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Quick answer
God's word is upright and all his works are done in faithfulness, giving solid ground for praise.
Overview
The psalmist grounds worship in God's character: his word is reliable and his deeds are marked by faithfulness. Because God is true and trustworthy, his people can praise him with confidence. This faithfulness is supremely displayed in Christ, the Word made flesh, in whom all God's promises are yes and amen.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 12:6Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
- Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
- Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
- Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Prov 30:5“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Ps 19:8Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Ps 36:5–6Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Gen 24:27He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Ps 96:13before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
- Mic 2:7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
- Ps 85:10–11Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
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