Psalms 36:5
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
BSB
ASV
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens; Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.
KJV
Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Therefore, mercy must be sought from heaven, and the truth of God must be gathered from the oracles of the prophets, who, like clouds, cover the mysteries of divine knowledge. For God has placed darkness as His hiding place; so that you may first receive the rain of mystical fertility, and then, infused with heavenly dew, recognize the brightness of revealed light, so that you may say: From His fullness we have received.
Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens. Like the ethereal blue, it encompasses the whole earth, smiling upon universal nature, acting as a canopy for all the creatures of earth, surmounting the loftiest peaks of human provocations, and rising high above the mists of mortal transgression. Clear sky is evermore above, and mercy calmly smiles above the din and smoke of this poor world. Darkness and clouds are but of earth's lower atmospheres: the heavens are evermore serene, and bright with innumerable stars.
The climax is that he deliberately adopts and patronizes evil. The negative forms affirm more emphatically their contraries. 5, 6. mercy . . . and . . . faithfulness--as mercy and truth (Ps 25:10).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
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Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of…
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Psalms 57:10For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
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For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 103:11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
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But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.