Parallel Verses

Amplified


Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
Your judgments are like the great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

New American Standard Bible

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

King James Version

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Holman Bible

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.

International Standard Version

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.

A Conservative Version

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God. Thy judgments are a great deep. O LORD, thou preserve man and beast.

American Standard Version

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

Bible in Basic English

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

Darby Translation

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy justice as the mountains of God; thy judgments a great deep: man and cattle thou wilt save, O Jerhovah

King James 2000

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your righteousness [is] {like the mighty mountains}, your judgments [like the] great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O Jehovah, You keep man and beast.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.

NET Bible

Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

New Heart English Bible

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy righteousness, is like mighty mountains, and, thy just decrees, are a great resounding deep, - Man and beast, thou savest, O Yahweh!

Webster

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

World English Bible

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

References

Context Readings

How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love

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Your lovingkindness and graciousness, O Lord, extend to the skies,
Your faithfulness [reaches] to the clouds.
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Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
Your judgments are like the great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
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How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.


Cross References

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways!

Psalm 71:19


Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

Psalm 77:19


Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.

Psalm 92:5


How great are Your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep [beyond man’s understanding].

Psalm 145:9


The Lord is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created].

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to strike the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right [by executing just and righteous judgment]?”

Exodus 9:28

Pray and entreat the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay here no longer.”

Deuteronomy 32:4


“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice),
Just and upright is He.

1 Samuel 14:15

And there was trembling in the [Philistine] camp, in the field, and among all the people; even the garrison and the raiding party trembled [in fear], and the earth quaked and it became a trembling and terror from God.

Nehemiah 9:6


[And Ezra said],
“You are the Lord, You alone;
You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their host (the heavenly bodies),
The earth and everything that is on it,
The seas and everything that is in them.
You give life to all of them,
And the heavenly host is bowing down [in worship] to You.

Job 7:20


“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,
O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?

Job 11:7-9


“Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you [by searching] discover the limits of the Almighty [ascend to His heights, extend to His widths, and comprehend His infinite perfection]?

Job 37:23


“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to [nor disregard] justice and abundant righteousness.

Psalm 97:2


Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai];
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Psalm 104:14-35


He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—

Psalm 145:16-17


You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalm 147:9


He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens that for which they cry.

Isaiah 40:28


Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become tired or grow weary;
There is no searching of His understanding.

Isaiah 45:19


“I have not spoken in secret,
In a corner of a land of darkness;
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in vain [with no benefit for yourselves].’
I, the Lord, speak righteousness [the truth—trustworthy, a straightforward correlation between deeds and words],
Declaring things that are upright.

Isaiah 45:21-24


“Declare and present your defense of idols;
Indeed, let them consult together.
Who announced this [rise of Cyrus and his conquests] long before it happened?
Who declared it long ago?
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A [consistently and uncompromisingly] just and righteous God and a Savior;
There is none except Me.

Jeremiah 12:1

You, O Lord are [uncompromisingly] righteous and consistently just when I plead my case with You;
Yet let me discuss issues of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are those who deal in treachery (deceit) at ease and thriving?

Jonah 4:11

Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 [innocent] persons, who do not know the difference between their right and left hand [and are not yet accountable for sin], as well as many [blameless] animals?”

Matthew 10:29-30

Are not two little sparrows sold for a copper coin? And yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Matthew 11:25-26

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [I openly and joyfully acknowledge Your great wisdom], that You have hidden these things [these spiritual truths] from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants [to new believers, to those seeking God’s will and purpose].

Romans 3:25

whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness [which demands punishment for sin], because in His forbearance [His deliberate restraint] He passed over the sins previously committed [before Jesus’ crucifixion].

1 Timothy 4:10

It is for this that we labor and strive [often called to account], because we have fixed our [confident] hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe [in Him, recognize Him as the Son of God, and accept Him as Savior and Lord].

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