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Psalm 57:10

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
9I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.
10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
11Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.
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The heavens and skies give this praise its vast scale, stretching a reader's sense of how great God's loving kindness and truth are.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.Both psalms use the height of the heavens to express the greatness of God's loving kindness.
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,The loving kindness and truth praised in the psalm are the same qualities God proclaims about himself in Exodus.
Psalm 108:4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both verses describe God's loving kindness through the heavens and his truth or faithfulness through the skies.
Psalm 36:5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both verses pair God's loving kindness with his faithfulness, using the heavens and skies to express their greatness.
Isaiah 54:7–10“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.Both passages speak of God's great mercy, though Isaiah describes gathering after forsaking and the psalm expresses praise.
Psalm 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.Both psalms praise God's great loving kindness; Psalm 86 names deliverance from the lowest Sheol as its expression.
Hebrews 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,Both passages speak of God's trustworthiness: the psalm praises his truth, while Hebrews describes his unchanging purpose confirmed by an oath.
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Praise and worship. gratitude.

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Encouragement

Praise has a reason here even when words are scarce. God's loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and his truth reaches to the skies.

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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).