Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
- BSB Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
- 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 shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
- Ps 36:5–6Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Ps 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
- Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Jer 10:7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
- Ps 126:2–3Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
- Isa 40:18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
- Ps 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.
- Ps 89:6–8For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
- Ps 72:18Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
- Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
- Luke 1:49For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.
- Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
- Ps 139:6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
- Prov 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
- Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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