Psalms 36:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

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  • Ps 57:10 : 10 For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.
  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
  • Ps 108:4 : 4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.
  • Isa 55:7-9 : 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
  • Heb 6:18-20 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false; 19 And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil; 20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Ps 89:2 : 2 For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
  • Ps 92:2 : 2 To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;
  • Ps 100:5 : 5 For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.
  • Ps 52:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

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    4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

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    10 For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

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    6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

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    2 For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

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    5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

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