O Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
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.
- BSB How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
- 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 11:33–34Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Isa 55:8–9“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Ps 139:17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:3–4Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
- 1 Cor 2:10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
- Ps 111:2Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
- Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Isa 28:29This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
- Ps 104:24Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
- Ps 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
- Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
- Eccl 7:24That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- Ps 64:6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
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