Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest 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.
- 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 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Isa 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Ps 77:19Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Neh 9:6Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
- 1 Tim 4:10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
- Ps 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
- Job 37:23Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
- Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
- Matt 11:25–26At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
- Ps 104:14–35He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Ps 92:5O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- Ps 147:9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
- Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Matt 10:29–30Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Ps 145:16–17Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
- Exod 9:28Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
- Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
- Isa 45:21–24Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
- 1 Sam 14:15And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
- Rom 3:25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
- Jonah 4:11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
- Job 11:7–9Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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