Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
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.

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.

Amplified


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

5 Lord, Your faithful love reaches to heaven,
Your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.
7 God, Your faithful love is so valuable
that people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.


Cross References

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments
and untraceable His ways!

Psalm 71:19

Your righteousness reaches heaven, God,
You who have done great things;
God, who is like You?

Psalm 77:19

Your way went through the sea
and Your path through the great waters,
but Your footprints were unseen.

Psalm 92:5

How magnificent are Your works, Lord,
how profound Your thoughts!

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to everyone;
His compassion rests on all He has made.

Genesis 18:25

You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Exodus 9:28

Make an appeal to Yahweh. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock—His work is perfect;
all His ways are entirely just.
A faithful God, without prejudice,
He is righteous and true.

1 Samuel 14:15

Terror spread through the Philistine camp and the open fields to all the troops. Even the garrison and the raiding parties were terrified. The earth shook, and terror spread from God.

Nehemiah 9:6

You alone are Yahweh.
You created the heavens,
the highest heavens with all their host,
the earth and all that is on it,
the seas and all that is in them.
You give life to all of them,
and the heavenly host worships You.

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what have I done to You,
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?

Job 11:7-9

Can you fathom the depths of God
or discover the limits of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

The Almighty—we cannot reach Him—
He is exalted in power!
He will not oppress justice and abundant righteousness,

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and thick darkness surround Him;
righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Psalm 104:14-35

He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,

Psalm 145:16-17

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

Psalm 147:9

He provides the animals with their food,
and the young ravens, what they cry for.

Isaiah 40:28

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Yahweh is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never grows faint or weary;
there is no limit to His understanding.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret,
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.

Isaiah 45:21-24

Speak up and present your case
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who predicted this long ago?
Who announced it from ancient times?
Was it not I, Yahweh?
There is no other God but Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no one except Me.

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Jonah 4:11

Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”

Matthew 10:29-30

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.

Matthew 11:25-26

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants.

Romans 3:25

God presented Him as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

1 Timothy 4:10

In fact, we labor and strive for this, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, especially of those who believe.

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