Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Your gracious love, LORD, reaches to the heavens; your truth extends to the skies. 6 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. 7 How precious is your gracious love, God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Cross References

Romans 11:33

O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!

Psalm 71:19

Your many righteous deeds, God, are great,

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea, and your path through mighty waters, but your footprints cannot be traced.

Psalm 92:5

How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are unfathomable.

Psalm 145:9

The LORD is good to everyone and his mercies extend to everything he does.

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! The Judge of all the earth will do what is right, won't he?"

Exodus 9:28

Pray to the LORD! There has been enough of God's thunder and hail! I'll let you go, and you need not stay any longer."

Deuteronomy 32:4

Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God never unjust righteous and upright is he.

1 Samuel 14:15

There was terror in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even the garrison and the raiders were terrified. The earth shook, and there was even greater terror.

Nehemiah 9:6

"You are the LORD; you alone crafted the heavens, the highest heavens with all of their armies; the earth, and everything in it; the seas, and everything in them; you keep giving all of them life, and the army of heaven continuously worships you.

Job 7:20

So what if I sin? What have I done against you, you observer of humankind? Why have you made me your target? Why burden yourself with me?

Job 11:7-9

"Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?

Job 37:23

We cannot find the Almighty he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses.

Psalm 97:2

Thick clouds are all around him; righteousness and justice are his throne's foundation.

Psalm 104:14-35

He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

Psalm 145:16-17

You open your hand and keep on satisfying the desire of every living thing.

Psalm 147:9

He gives wild animals their food, including the young ravens when they cry.

Isaiah 40:28

Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.

Isaiah 45:19

I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, "Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right.

Isaiah 45:21-24

Explain and present a case! Yes, let them take counsel together. Who announced this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides me, a righteous God and Savior; and there is none besides me.

Jeremiah 12:1

You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease?

Jonah 4:11

So why shouldn't I be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 human beings who do not know their right hand from their left, as well as a lot of livestock?

Matthew 10:29-30

"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

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 wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.

Romans 3:25

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

1 Timothy 4:10

To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

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