Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
- KJV Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
- BSB Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- NKJV Your testimonies are very sure; Holiness adorns Your house, O Lord, forever.
- NASB Your testimonies are fully confirmed; Holiness is pleasing to Your house, Lord, forevermore.
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Quick answer
God's decrees are fully trustworthy, and holiness befits His house forever. The reigning God is also the holy, reliable lawgiver.
Overview
The psalm closes by joining God's kingship to His sure word and the holiness of His dwelling. His statutes are as firm as His throne, and His people are called to holiness fitting His presence. This holiness is supremely upheld in Christ, who sanctifies His people as God's holy temple (1 Peter 1:16; Hebrews 12:14).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Ps 19:7–8Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 29:2Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
- Lev 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
- Ps 119:129Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
- 1 Cor 3:16–17Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF
- Ps 119:138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
- Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
- Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
- Ps 99:9Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
- Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- John 4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
- Rev 21:27There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
- Heb 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Ps 5:4–7For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.
- 1 Jn 5:9–13If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
- Isa 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
- Zech 14:20–21In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO YAHWEH”; and the pots in Yahweh’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.
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