Psalms 92:5

5 How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!

Psalms 92:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
ESV
5 How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!
NLT
5 O LORD, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.
MSG
5 How magnificent your work, God! How profound your thoughts!
CSB
5 How magnificent are Your works, Lord, how profound Your thoughts!

Psalms 92:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 92:5

O Lord, how great are thy works!
&c.] Of nature, providence, and grace, both for quantity and for quality, for number, excellency, and glory, as they are a display of God's wisdom, power, and goodness; see ( Psalms 104:24 ) ,

and thy thoughts are very deep;
his counsels, purposes, and designs, they are unfathomable and unsearchable; see ( 1 Corinthians 2:10 ) .

Psalms 92:5 In-Context

3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.
5 How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!
6 Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Job 36:24; Revelation 15:3
  • 2. Psalms 40:5; Psalms 139:17; Isaiah 28:29; Isaiah 31:2; Romans 11:33
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