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Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.
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Psalms 36:5 in Other Translations
KJV
5
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
ESV
5
Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
NLT
5
Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
MSG
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God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic,
CSB
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Lord, Your faithful love [reaches] to heaven, Your faithfulness to the skies.
Psalms 36:5-6 Meaning and Commentary
Taken from
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Psalms 36:5-6 In-Context
3
The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.
4
Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.
5
Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.
7
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8
They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
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1.
Psalms 89:1
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Psalms 119:90
2.
Psalms 57:10
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Psalms 71:19
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Psalms 89:2
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Psalms 103:11
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Psalms 108:4
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Psalms 5:8
4.
Psalms 68:15
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Genesis 1:2
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Genesis 7:11
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Job 11:8
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Psalms 77:19
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Romans 11:33
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Nehemiah 9:6
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Psalms 104:14
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Psalms 145:16
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