O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Parallel translations
- WEB How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- BSB How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
- 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).
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- Rom 11:33–34O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Isa 55:8–9For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
- Ps 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Ps 139:17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
- Ps 145:3–4Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- 1 Cor 2:10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
- Ps 111:2The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
- Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Isa 28:29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
- Ps 104:24O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
- Ps 66:3Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
- Jer 23:20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
- Eccl 7:24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
- Ps 36:6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
- Ps 64:6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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