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Psalm 71:19
God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
19God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
21Increase my honor and comfort me again.
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Righteousness reaching to the heavens gives praise a vast scale, even as the surrounding prayer speaks of old age and bitter troubles.
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Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the LORD’s …Both passages connect righteousness with God: the psalm praises his righteousness, while Isaiah names him as its source for his servants.
Psalm 35:10All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”Both psalms ask who is like God, with Psalm 35 naming his rescue of the poor from those too strong for them.
Psalm 36:5–6Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.Both describe God's character through the height of the heavens, praising righteousness in Psalm 71 and loving kindness and faithfulness in Psalm 36.
Deuteronomy 3:24“Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, …Both praise God's great works and ask whether anyone can compare with him.
1 Samuel 2:2There is no one as holy as the LORD, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.Both declare God's matchless character, with the psalm praising his righteousness and Hannah's prayer praising his holiness.
Psalm 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.Both use the heavens to describe the reach of God's character, naming righteousness in Psalm 71 and loving kindness in Psalm 57.
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 height of the heavens, though the psalm describes God's righteousness and Isaiah contrasts God's ways with human ways.
Psalm 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,Both ask who can compare with God, with Psalm 89 extending the comparison to heavenly beings.
Exodus 15:11Who is like you, LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?Both join praise for God's wondrous deeds with the question of who could be like him.
Jeremiah 10:7Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no …Both affirm that no one is like God; Jeremiah names the wise and royal among the nations as unequal to him.
Isaiah 40:18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?Both use a question about comparison to express that God has no equal.
Isaiah 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.Both challenge any claim that God has an equal, the psalm through prayer and Isaiah through God's own speech.
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Your praise need not wait until troubles end. The speaker still asks for comfort while declaring that God has done great things and has no equal.
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