Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- KJV Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
- NKJV Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
- NASB Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like the great deep. Lord, You protect mankind and animals.
- NLT Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
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Quick answer
God's righteousness is as solid as great mountains and His judgments as unfathomable as the deep, and He preserves both man and beast. His justice and care are immense.
Overview
David magnifies God's righteousness as unshakable and His judgments as profound beyond human comprehension, while affirming His providential care for all creatures, 'man and animal.' Towering justice and tender preservation belong together in God's character. Such providence sustains the world that awaits redemption, and points to the God who upholds all things by His powerful word in Christ (Hebrews 1:3).
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- Rom 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Isa 40:28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
- Ps 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Neh 9:6You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
- 1 Tim 4:10To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
- Job 37:23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
- Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
- Matt 11:25–26At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
- Ps 104:14–35He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- Ps 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Gen 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Matt 10:29–30Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
- Ps 145:16–17You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
- Exod 9:28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Isa 45:21–24Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- 1 Sam 14:15Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
- Rom 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
- Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
- Job 11:7–9Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- Jer 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
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