Psalm 36:5 {35:6}
Good News Translation
LORD, your constant love reaches the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the skies.

New Revised Standard Version
Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Contemporary English Version
Your love is faithful, LORD, and even the clouds in the sky can depend on you.

New American Bible
LORD, your mercy reaches to heaven; your fidelity, to the clouds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

mercy

Psalm 52:1 Unto the end, understanding for David, [2] When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech. [3] Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

Psalm 57:10 For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.

Psalm 103:11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

Psalm 108:4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

Isaiah 55:7-9 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. . . .

faithfulness

Psalm 89:2 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

Psalm 92:2 To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Hebrews 6:18-20 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us. . . .

Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
4He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated. 5O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.6Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:…
Cross References
Psalm 57:10
For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.

Psalm 89:1
Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. [2] The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

Psalm 89:2
For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

Psalm 103:11
For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

Psalm 108:4
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

Psalm 119:90
Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.

Jeremiah 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.

Psalm 36:4
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