For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
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For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
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For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
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(57-11) For Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and Thy truth unto the skies.
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Passages linked to Psalms 57:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 108:4 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Psalms 36:5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Psalms 103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
- Isaiah 54:7-10 “For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies. In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer. “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
- Psalms 71:19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
- Hebrews 6:17-18 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Psalms 85:10-11 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
- Psalms 89:1-2 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Thy mercies do not only appertain to the Jews,…
Thy mercies do not only appertain to the Jews, but also to the Gentiles.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 57:10 For thy mercy [is] great unto the…
Psa 57:10 For thy mercy [is] great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Ver. 10. For thy mercy is great, &c.] God’s mercy is ordinarily in the psalms bounded by his truth; that none may either presume him more merciful than he hath declared himself in his word; or else despair of finding mercy gratis, according to his promise.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Is most evident, and greatly exalted.
i.e. Is most evident, and greatly exalted.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,.... Which…
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,.... Which denotes the exceeding greatness and largeness of it; as it is in the heart of God, who is plenteous in mercy; as it is expressed in the covenant of grace, where are stores of it; as it is shown forth in the choice of persons to eternal life; in the mission of Christ into this world to die for them; in the regeneration of them, the pardon of their sins, and eternal life: and this mercy is not only extended to persons in the several parts of the earth, but is as high as the heaven above it, Psa 103:11;
and thy truth unto the clouds; the faithfulness of God in performing his purposes and his promises; or the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, which contain the deep things of God; unless Christ himself should be meant, who is the truth which sprung out of the earth, Psa 85:11; is now ascended unto heaven, and is higher than the heavens; and whose exaltation and glory may be designed in Psa 57:11.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. Thy mercy is great unto the heavens]…
Verse 10. Thy mercy is great unto the heavens] It is as far above all human description and comprehension as the heavens are above the earth. See the notes on Ps 36:5; Ps 36:6, where nearly the same words occur.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For thy mercy is great unto the heavens ...…
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens ... - See this explained in the notes at Psa 36:5.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Unto the heavens… clouds—See on Psa_36:5
10. Unto the heavens… clouds—See on Psa_36:5
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. For thy lovingkindness is great unto the heavens,
10. For thy lovingkindness is great unto the heavens,
And thy truth unto the skies.
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For gives the reason for Psa_57:9. Mercy and truth which reach from earth to heaven demand world-wide praise. Note that it is the attributes which minister to the deliverance of God’s servant (Psa_57:3) which are expressly named. Sent forth for his help they have proved victorious. Almost the same words are found in Psa_36:5. Cp. Eph_3:18.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and…
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. "Thy mercy, thy truth" (comp. ver. 3).
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 10. For thy mercy is great unto the…
Ver. 10. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens. Right up from man's lowliness to heaven's loftiness mercy reaches. Imagination fails to guess the height of heaven, and even thus the riches of mercy exceed our highest thoughts. The psalmist, as he sits at the cave's mouth and looks up to the firmament, rejoices that God's goodness is more vast and more sublime than even the vaulted skies.
And thy truth unto the clouds. Upon the cloud he sets the seal of his truth, the rainbow, which ratifies his covenant; in the cloud he hides his rain and snow, which prove his truth by bringing to us seedtime and harvest, cold and heat. Creation is great, but the Creator greater far. Heaven cannot contain him; above clouds and stars his goodness far exceeds.
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Ver. 10-11. A hard and ungrateful heart beholds even in prosperity only isolated drops of divine grace; but a grateful one like David's, though chased by persecutors, and striking the harp in the gloom of a cave, looks upon the mercy and faithfulness of God as a mighty ocean, waving and heaving from the earth to the clouds, and from the clouds to the earth again. Agustus F. Tholuck.
Ver. 10. The mercy of God reaches to the heavens.
I. As a throne. God is exalted in our eyes by his
mercy.
II. As a ladder. By mercy we ascend from earth to
heaven.
III. As a rainbow. Present and past mercies argue
exemption for the saints from the wrath of heaven.
IV. As a mountain. Its base is on the earth though its
summit is lost in clouds. The influence of the cross
towers to the heaven of heavens. Who can tell the
glory of the summit of this mountain, whose base
is refulgent with glory! R. A. G.
Ver. 10. The amazing greatness of mercy.
I. It is not said merely that it is high as heaven, but
great unto the heavens. It is high as the
heavens, overtopping the greatest sin, and highest
thought of man.
II. It is wide as the far reaching sky, compassing
men of all ages, countries, classes, etc.
III. It is deep. Everything of God is proportionate;
this, therefore, is deep in abiding foundation, and
infinite wisdom.
Psalms 57:11*
Ver. 10-11. See Psalms on "Ps 57:10" for further information.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 57:10-11 God’s glory extends to the whole universe, as…
57:10-11 God’s glory extends to the whole universe, as will praise for his unfailing love and faithfulness.
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