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Psalm 36:5
Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
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The heavens give a sense of scale to God’s loving kindness, while the turn from human deceit to divine faithfulness offers room for trust.
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Lamentations 3:23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.Both passages praise God’s faithfulness as great, with the psalm using the skies to express its vastness.
Psalm 100:5For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.Both name the LORD’s loving kindness and faithfulness, describing their greatness through the expanse of the skies or the span of generations.
Psalm 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.Both address God with praise that stretches to the heavens and skies, pairing loving kindness with faithfulness or truth.
Psalm 108:4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both describe God’s loving kindness in relation to the heavens and say his faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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 express the greatness of God’s loving kindness.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the …Both affirm God’s faithfulness; Corinthians names his provision of a way of escape amid temptation.
1 Thessalonians 5:24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.Both declare God faithful, with Thessalonians connecting that faithfulness to his commitment to do what he has said.
Hebrews 6:18–20that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope …Both speak of God’s trustworthiness: the psalm praises his faithfulness, and Hebrews says it is impossible for God to lie.
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 the heavens’ height to describe God’s greatness, speaking of his faithfulness or of his ways and thoughts.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.The shared image is heaven: the psalm uses its vastness to praise God’s faithfulness, while Jesus says heaven will pass away.
Isaiah 55:7–9Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely …Both speak of the LORD’s kindness, with Isaiah describing his mercy and pardon toward the wicked who return to him.
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.Both use sky-reaching language for greatness, though Daniel describes a king’s dominion and the psalm describes God’s faithfulness.
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Human deceit has a place in this psalm’s account of the world. Even there, praise has grounds: God’s loving kindness is in the heavens, and his faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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