Psalm 108:4
New International Version
For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

New Living Translation
For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

English Standard Version
For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Berean Standard Bible
For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

King James Bible
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

New King James Version
For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds.

New American Standard Bible
For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.

NASB 1995
For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.

NASB 1977
For Thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens; And Thy truth reaches to the skies.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.

Amplified Bible
For Your lovingkindness is great and higher than the heavens; Your truth reaches to the skies.

Christian Standard Bible
For your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For Your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

American Standard Version
For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens; And thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because your kindness is great under the sky and your faithfulness unto The Heaven of Heavens.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches to the clouds.

Contemporary English Version
Your love reaches higher than the heavens, and your loyalty extends beyond the clouds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

English Revised Version
For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because your mercy is higher than the heavens. Your truth reaches the skies.

Good News Translation
Your constant love reaches above the heavens; your faithfulness touches the skies.

International Standard Version
For your gracious love extends to the sky, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thy mercy is great above the heavens, And Thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

Literal Standard Version
For Your kindness [is] great above the heavens, | And Your truth to the clouds.

Majority Standard Bible
For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

New American Bible
For your mercy is greater than the heavens; your faithfulness, to the skies.

NET Bible
For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

New Revised Standard Version
For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

New Heart English Bible
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth to the clouds.

World English Bible
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Young's Literal Translation
For great above the heavens is Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Israel's Kingdom Blessing
3I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples. 4For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. 5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; may Your glory cover all the earth.…

Cross References
Exodus 34:6
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.'

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Psalm 36:5
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 57:10
For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalm 100:5
For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.

Psalm 108:3
I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.


Treasury of Scripture

For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches to the clouds.

thy mercy

Psalm 36:5
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

Psalm 85:10
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalm 89:2,4
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens…

clouds, or, skies

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Psalm 108
1. David encourages himself to praise God
5. He prays for God's assistance according to his promise
11. His confidence in God's help














Verse 4. - For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Identical with Psalm 57:10, with the exception of one preposition, which occurs only in some manuscripts.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

Your loving devotion
חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ (ḥas·de·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty

is higher
גָד֣וֹל (ḡā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

than the heavens,
שָׁמַ֣יִם (šā·ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

and Your truth
אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃ (’ă·mit·te·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness

reaches
וְֽעַד־ (wə·‘aḏ-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

to the skies.
שְׁחָקִ֥ים (šə·ḥā·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7834: A powder, a thin vapor, the firmament


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