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All heaven will praise your great wonders, Lord; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
Psalms 89:5 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
  • KJV And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
  • BSB The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.
  • NKJV And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.
  • NASB ¶The heavens will praise Your wonders, Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

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Quick answer

The heavens praise God's wonders and His faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones. All creation and the angelic host worship God's faithfulness.

Overview

The psalm turns to praise, with the heavens and the heavenly assembly extolling God's wondrous faithfulness. This cosmic worship underscores the greatness of the God who keeps covenant. It anticipates the worship of heaven that surrounds Christ, the faithful and true One.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Ps 97:6The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.
  • Ps 19:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
  • Isa 44:23Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
  • Ps 50:6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
  • Rev 7:10–12They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
  • 2 Th 1:7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
  • Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
  • 1 Pet 1:12To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • Jude 1:14–15About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
  • Rev 19:1–6After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
  • Deut 33:2He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
  • Rev 5:11–14I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
  • Job 5:1“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
  • Dan 7:10A fiery stream issued and came out from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
  • Luke 2:10–15The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
  • Eph 3:10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
  • Heb 12:22–23But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 89:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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