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Psalm 108:4

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

2Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
3I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
5Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.
6That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.
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The heavens and skies give this praise its scale, stretching a reader's sense of how great God's loving kindness and faithfulness are.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,Both passages describe God's loving kindness as abundant, with Exodus proclaiming his character and the psalm praising him for it.
Psalm 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.Both verses describe God's great loving kindness through the height of the heavens and extend their praise to the skies.
Psalm 36:5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both verses connect God's loving kindness with the heavens and say that his faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Psalm 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.Both praise God's great loving kindness; Psalm 86 speaks of that kindness toward the singer in deliverance from Sheol.
Ephesians 2:4–7But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Both passages speak of the greatness of God's love, expressed as loving kindness in the psalm and alongside rich mercy in Ephesians.
Psalm 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.Both use the height of the heavens to describe God's great loving kindness.
Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.Both use heavenly height to express greatness, though Isaiah speaks of God's ways and thoughts rather than his loving kindness.
Daniel 4:22it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.The shared thread is sky-reaching language, though Daniel describes a king's greatness and the psalm praises God's loving kindness and faithfulness.
Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he …Both praise God's loving kindness; Micah connects God's delight in it with his pardon and refusal to retain anger forever.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude. doubt.

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Encouragement

The song praises God's faithfulness before asking for rescue. Your need for help can remain real as you praise him: his loving kindness is great above the heavens.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).