Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

King James Version

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Holman Bible

God, Your faithful love is so valuable
that people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

International Standard Version

How precious is your gracious love, God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

A Conservative Version

How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

American Standard Version

How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Amplified


How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Bible in Basic English

How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

Darby Translation

How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Julia Smith Translation

How precious thy mercy, O God! and the sons of man shall put their trust in the shadow of thy wings.

King James 2000

How excellent is your lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

Lexham Expanded Bible

How precious [is] your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Modern King James verseion

How precious is Your loving-kindness, O God! And the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of Your wing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How excellent is thy mercy, O God! And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

NET Bible

How precious is your loyal love, O God! The human race finds shelter under your wings.

New Heart English Bible

How precious is your loving kindness, God. The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

The Emphasized Bible

How precious thy lovingkindness, O God, - Therefore, the sons of men, under the shadow of thy wings, seek refuge:

Webster

How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

World English Bible

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Youngs Literal Translation

How precious is Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love

6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD. 7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!"

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,

Psalm 91:4

He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Psalm 31:19

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

Psalm 139:17

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Exodus 34:6

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Psalm 63:7

for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Psalm 145:7-8

They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Peter 2:6-7

For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."

2 Peter 1:4

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

1 John 4:9-10

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

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