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Be My Rock of Refuge

Psalms 71:19

In 11 translations

BSB
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
KJV
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
WEB
God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
ASV
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?
LSV
And Your righteousness, O God, [is] to the heights, || Because You have done great things, || O God, who [is] like You?
YLT
And Thy righteousness, O God, [is] unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who [is] like Thee?
DBY
And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?ElohimElohim
DRC70:19
And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?
GNV
And thy righteousnes, O God, I wil exalt on high: for thou hast done great thinges: O God, who is like vnto thee!
JPS
Thy righteousness also, O God, which reacheth unto high heaven; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto Thee?
LXXE70:19
even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְצִדְקָתְךָ֥ אֱלֹהִ֗ים עַד־מָ֫ר֥וֹם אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתָ גְדֹל֑וֹת אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים מִ֣י כָמֽוֹךָ׃
LXX-Br70:19
καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου ὁ Θεὸς ἕως ὑψίστων, ἃ ἐποίησας μεγαλεῖα· ὁ Θεὸς τίς ὅμοιός σοι;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
  • Psalms 36:5–6Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
  • Psalms 57:10For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
  • Exodus 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
  • Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Jeremiah 10:7Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
  • Psalms 126:2–3Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.
  • Psalms 89:6–8For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD? In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him. O LORD God of Hosts, who…
  • Isaiah 40:18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
  • Psalms 86:8O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.
  • Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
  • Luke 1:49For the Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy is His name.
  • Isaiah 40:25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
  • Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
  • Psalms 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
  • Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

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