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Psalm 119:142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
140Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
141I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. QOPH
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The word “everlasting” sets God’s righteousness beyond the reach of time, even as the surrounding lines speak of contempt and anguish.
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Psalm 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.Both speak of righteousness and truth in God’s instruction, alongside language of what endures forever.
John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.The psalm declares God’s law to be truth; John’s prayer names God’s word as truth and asks for sanctification through it.
Psalm 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHINBoth declare God’s words or law to be truth and affirm the enduring righteousness of God or his ordinances.
Psalm 119:151You are near, LORD. All your commandments are truth.Both address God and declare his instruction to be truth; verse 151 also affirms his nearness.
Romans 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s …Both speak of God’s righteousness; Romans describes its demonstration through an atoning sacrifice and God’s forbearance toward prior sins.
Isaiah 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”Both affirm that God’s righteousness lasts forever; Isaiah contrasts that permanence with people consumed like garments by moths and worms.
Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its …Both affirm the permanence of God’s righteousness; Isaiah says it will not be abolished even as heaven and earth pass away.
Psalm 111:3His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.Both declare that God’s righteousness endures forever, with Psalm 111 also describing the honor and majesty of his work.
Ephesians 4:21if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:The shared word is truth: the psalm identifies God’s law as truth, while Ephesians says truth is in Jesus.
Revelation 14:6I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.The shared thread is permanence: the psalm names everlasting righteousness, while Revelation describes eternal Good News proclaimed to every nation.
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring …Both name everlasting righteousness; the psalm declares it belongs to God, while Daniel includes it among the purposes of seventy weeks.
2 Thessalonians 1:6–10For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,Both affirm that God is righteous; Thessalonians applies this to his repayment of affliction to those who afflict others.
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The writer names anguish in the next line without withdrawing this confession. Anguish does not change God’s character: his righteousness lasts, and his law is truth.
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