How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Parallel translations
- WEB How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- KJV O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- NKJV O Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
- NASB ¶How great are Your works, Lord! Your thoughts are very deep.
- NLT O Lord, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.
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Quick answer
God's works are great and His thoughts immeasurably deep. We are called to humble awe before a God whose wisdom far exceeds ours.
Overview
The psalmist marvels at both the magnitude of God's works and the unfathomable depth of His purposes. This depth is not chaos but profound wisdom that the senseless cannot grasp (v.6). Paul echoes this wonder at the riches of God's wisdom revealed in the gospel (Romans 11:33).
Cross-references & the web
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- Rom 11:33–34O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Isa 55:8–9“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
- Ps 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
- Ps 139:17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:3–4Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- 1 Cor 2:10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- Ps 111:2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
- Rev 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Isa 28:29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
- Ps 104:24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
- Ps 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
- Jer 23:20The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
- Eccl 7:24What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Ps 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
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