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Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You who have done great things. God, who is like you?
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Righteousness Beyond Measure
Commentators explain that God's righteousness is 'very high,' meaning it reaches to the heavens, far beyond our limited human understanding. John Calvin urges believers not to measure God by their own small standards, especially during trials. Instead, we should trust in the vast, incomprehensible nature of His righteousness, which is powerful enough to save and sustain us.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high - See the notes at (Psalms 36:5). The purpose of the psalmist is to exalt t…
19th Century
Anglican
Very high. —Literally, to the height, that is, to the heavens, as in Psalms 36:5; Psalms 57:10. The clauses sh…
Baptist
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one …
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16th Century
Protestant
And thy righteousness, O God! is very high. Some connect this verse with the preceding one and, repeating the verb I will declare,
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your righteousness also, O God, [is] very high Or, "unto [the place] on high" F6; it reaches unto heaven,…
The psalmist declares that the righteousness of Christ, and the great salvation obtained through it, will be the chosen subject of his discourse. N…
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