Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
- BSB Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve 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 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Isa 40:28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
- Ps 77:19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
- 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.
- Neh 9:6You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
- 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Ps 145:9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
- Matt 11:25–26At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
- Ps 104:14–35He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
- Ps 92:5How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
- Matt 10:29–30“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
- Ps 145:16–17You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
- Exod 9:28Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
- Isa 45:21–24Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
- 1 Sam 14:15There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.
- Rom 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
- Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
- Job 11:7–9“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
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