Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
Parallel translations
- WEB Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- KJV Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
- NKJV Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?
- NASB For Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; God, who is like You?
- NLT Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the highest heavens. You have done such wonderful things. Who can compare with you, O God?
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Quick answer
God's righteousness reaches to the heavens and his great deeds are incomparable, prompting the awed question, 'God, who is like you?'
Overview
The psalmist exalts the boundless height of God's righteousness and the greatness of his works. The rhetorical question 'Who is like you?' confesses God's utter uniqueness and is a recurring note of worship in Scripture (Exodus 15:11; Micah 7:18). Such incomparable righteousness and saving power find their clearest display in the person and work of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
- Ps 36:5–6Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Ps 57:10For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Jer 10:7Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
- Ps 126:2–3Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Isa 40:18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
- Ps 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
- Ps 89:6–8For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
- Ps 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Isa 40:25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
- Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Luke 1:49For the Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy is His name.
- Isa 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
- Ps 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
- Prov 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
- Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.
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