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Psalm 92:5

How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.

3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
4For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
5How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.
6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
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Great works and deep thoughts belong to the same Lord, so the praise here carries both glad recognition and a sense of wonder.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Isaiah 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.Both passages speak of God's thoughts: the psalm praises their depth, while Isaiah distinguishes them from human thoughts.
Romans 11:33–34Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!Both passages respond with wonder to the depth of God’s wisdom and thoughts.
Psalm 40:5Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare …Both psalms praise God's works and thoughts, describing greatness and depth in one, abundance beyond counting in the other.
Psalm 139:17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!Both psalms address God with wonder at his thoughts, praising their depth in one and their vast sum in the other.
Psalm 145:3–4Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.Both psalms praise divine greatness: Psalm 92 names God's works, and Psalm 145 declares the Lord himself great.
1 Corinthians 2:10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.Both passages speak of depth in God; Paul adds that the Spirit searches even the deep things of God.
Psalm 111:2The LORD’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.Both psalms declare the Lord's works great, with Psalm 111 describing the delight of those who ponder them.
Ecclesiastes 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.Both speak of God's work; the psalm praises its greatness, while Ecclesiastes stresses the limits of human knowledge.
Revelation 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and …Both songs address God in praise and declare that his works are great.
Isaiah 28:29This also comes out from the LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.Both praise God’s thought and wisdom, describing his thoughts as deep and his counsel as wonderful.
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Encouragement

You do not have to explain all God's thoughts before praising his works. There is room for wonder where your understanding reaches its limits: his thoughts are deep.

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