the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Psalms 36:5
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Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your steadfastness to the clouds.
Your love is faithful, Lord , and even the clouds in the sky can depend on you.
He devises trouble as he lies in bed; so set is he on his own bad way that he doesn't hate evil.
Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.
Lord , your faithful love reaches to the sky. Your faithfulness is as high as the clouds.
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens; Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.
Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.
Thy mercy O God reacheth vnto heauen: [and] thy faythfulnes vnto the cloudes.
Thy mercy, O Lord, reacheth vnto the heauens, and thy faithfulnesse vnto the cloudes.
O LORD, thy mercy is in heaven; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the universe.
Lord , your constant love reaches the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the skies.
Your steadfast love, O Lord , extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your lovingkindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Lord , Your faithful love reaches to heaven, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your mercy, LORD, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Thy mercie (O Lord) is in the heauens; and thy faithfulnesse reacheth vnto the cloudes.
Thy mercy, O Lord , is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Your lovingkindness and graciousness, O LORD, extend to the skies, Your faithfulness [reaches] to the clouds.
Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] to the clouds.
Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
O Yahweh, your loyal love extends into the heavens, your faithfulness unto the clouds.
Your mercy, O Jehovah, is in the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Lord , your love reaches to the heavens, your loyalty to the skies.
O Lord , your loyal love reaches to the sky; your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your love, Lord , reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Lord, thi merci is in heuene; and thi treuthe is `til to cloudis.
O Lord, Your loving-kindness goes to the heavens. You are as faithful as the sky is high.
Your steadfast love, O Lord , extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
O Yahweh! in the heavens, is thy lovingkindness, Thy faithfulness, as far as the fleecy clouds:
(35-6) O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.
Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.
O Jehovah, in the heavens [is] Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness [is] unto the clouds.
Thy mercy (O LORDE) reacheth vnto the heauen, and thy faithfulnesse vnto the cloudes.
God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.
He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds.
Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, is in the heavens; thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.
Your unfailing love, O Lord , is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
Your loving-kindness, O Yahweh, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness [reaches] to the skies.
Your lovingkindness, O Lord , extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mercy: Psalms 52:1, Psalms 57:10, Psalms 103:11, Psalms 108:4, Isaiah 55:7-9
faithfulness: Psalms 89:2, Psalms 92:2, Psalms 100:5, Matthew 24:35, Hebrews 6:18-20
Reciprocal: Genesis 9:10 - General 2 Chronicles 30:18 - The good Job 37:23 - in judgment Psalms 8:1 - thy Psalms 33:4 - all his Psalms 59:16 - sing aloud Psalms 71:19 - Thy righteousness Psalms 89:1 - thy faithfulness Psalms 97:6 - The heavens Psalms 138:2 - and praise Psalms 145:7 - abundantly Isaiah 55:9 - General Jeremiah 9:24 - lovingkindness Lamentations 3:23 - great Daniel 4:22 - thy greatness Acts 14:17 - in that Romans 2:2 - judgment 1 Corinthians 10:13 - but 1 Thessalonians 5:24 - Faithful
Cross-References
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy mercy, O Lord, [is] in the heavens,.... Meaning either the general mercy of God the earth is full of, and extends to all creatures; to which it is owing that wicked men before described are not consumed; and which reaches "up to the heavens" d, as the words are by some rendered, as their sins do; see Psalms 57:10; or the special mercy of God, and regards not the objects of it, creatures in heaven; for there at, none there proper objects of mercy; but the seat of it, the heart of God, who is in heaven; or the repository of it, the covenant of grace, which is full of the sure mercies of David; and of mercy there was a most glaring instance, when the son of God was sent down from heaven, to obtain salvation for sinful men; or it may denote the original of it, the heaven, being, as Aben Ezra observes some Jewish interpreters say, the fountain of mercy, and the spring of truth; or the greatness and abundance of it, it being as high as heaven, yea, above it; see Psalms 103:11;
[and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds; which lies in the execution of his purposes, whose counsels of old were faithfulness and truth; and in keeping his covenant and promises; he never changes his mind, nor forgets his word; he is a God of truth, and cannot lie; he knows the end from the beginning; no unforeseen event can turn up to hinder the performance of what he has purposed and promised, and he is able to perform; nor does ever any of the good things he has spoken of fail: though his faithfulness sometimes seems to be not only to the clouds, but in them, and out of sight; providences seem to clash with promises, which make unbelief to say, doth his promise fail for evermore? yet, though we believe not, he abides faithful, Psalms 77:8 2 Timothy 2:13.
d בהשמים "usque ad coelos", Pagninus, Musculus, Muis, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Kimchi & Noldius, p. 164. No. 744. & Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens - This commences the second part of the psalm - the description of the character of God in contrast with the character of the wicked man. The meaning here is, evidently, that the mercy of God is very exalted; to the very heavens, as high as the highest object of which man can conceive. Thus, we speak of virtue as “exalted,” or virtue of the “highest kind.” The idea is not that the mercy of God is “manifested” in heaven, for, mercy being favor shown to the guilty, there is no occasion for it in heaven; nor is the idea that mercy, as shown to man, has its “origin” in heaven, which is indeed true in itself; but it is, as above explained, that it is of the most exalted nature; that it is as high as man can conceive.
And thy faithfulness - Thy “truthfulness;” thy fidelity to thy promises and to thy friends.
Reacheth “unto the clouds.” The clouds are among the highest objects. They rise above the loftiest trees, and ascend above the mountains, and seem to lie or roll along the sky. The idea here, therefore, as in the first part of the verse, is, that it is elevated or exalted.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 36:5. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens — That is, thou art abundant, infinite in thy mercy; else such transgressors must be immediately cut off; but thy long-suffering is intended to lead them to repentance.
Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds — עד שחקים ad shechakim, to the eternal regions; above all visible space. God's faithfulness binds him to fulfil the promises and covenants made by his mercy. Blessings from the heavens, from the clouds, from the earth, are promised by God to his followers; and his faithfulness is in all those places, to distribute to his followers the mercies he has promised.
