For Your goodness is great to the heavens And Your truth to the clouds.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
- KJV For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
- BSB For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- NKJV For Your mercy reaches unto the heavens, And Your truth unto the clouds.
- NLT For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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Quick answer
God's loving kindness reaches to the heavens and his truth to the skies. It praises the boundless greatness of God's love and faithfulness.
Overview
David magnifies God's steadfast love and truth as immeasurably vast, filling the heavens. These twin attributes anchor his confidence throughout the psalm. The greatness of God's covenant love and faithfulness is the believer's surest ground for praise and hope.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 108:4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Ps 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
- Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Isa 54:7–10“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
- Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Heb 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Ps 85:10–11Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Ps 89:1–2A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- Gen 9:9–17“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
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