Psalms 71:19

King James Version

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thy righteousnes, O God, I wil exalt on high: for thou hast done great thinges: O God, who is like vnto thee!

Christian Standard Bible®
Your righteousness reaches the heights, God,you who have done great things;God, who is like you?

Hebrew Names Version
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You who have done great things. God, who is like you?

Easy-to-Read Version
God, your goodness reaches far above the skies. You have done wonderful things. God, there is no one like you.

Amplified Bible
Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

American Standard Version
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

Contemporary English Version
Your deeds of kindness are known in the heavens. No one is like you!

Complete Jewish Bible
your righteousness too, God, which reaches to the heights. God, you have done great things; who is there like you?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy righteousness also, O God, which reacheth unto high heaven;

King James Version (1611)
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="psa.71.1" class="versetxt"> [To the chiefe musician, a psalme of Dauid, to bring to remembrance.] Make haste, O God, to deliuer mee, make haste to helpe me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned backe for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, aha. Let all those that seeke thee, reioyce, and be glad in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say continually, Let God be magnified. But I am poore and needy, make haste vnto me, O God: Thou art my helpe and my deliuerer, O Lord make no tarrying.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which thou has done: O God, who is like to thee?

English Revised Version
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

Berean Standard Bible
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

Lexham English Bible
And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Literal Translation
And, Your righteousness, O God, is to the heights, You who have done great things. O God, who is like You,

New Century Version
God, your justice reaches to the skies. You have done great things; God, there is no one like you.

New English Translation
Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; you have done great things. O God, who can compare to you?

New King James Version
Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

New Living Translation
Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the highest heavens. You have done such wonderful things. Who can compare with you, O God?

New Life Bible
O God, You are right and good, as the heavens are high. You have done great things, O God. Who is like You?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as for thy righteousness, O God, up on high, Wherein thou hast wrought great things, O God! who is like unto thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(70-19) And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

George Lamsa Translation
Thy righteousness also, O God, has reached to the highest; thou hast done great things; O God, who is like unto thee!

Good News Translation
Your righteousness, God, reaches the skies. You have done great things; there is no one like you.

New American Standard Bible
For Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; God, who is like You?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And vntyll I [haue] exceedyngly exalted O Lorde thy ryghteousnesse: for great thynges are they that thou hast done, O Lorde who is lyke vnto thee?

New Revised Standard
and your righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Darby Translation
And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thi riytfulnesse, God, til in to the hiyeste grete dedis which thou hast do; God, who is lijk thee?

Young's Literal Translation
And Thy righteousness, O God, [is] unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who [is] like Thee?

World English Bible
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You who have done great things. God, who is like you?

Revised Standard Version
and thy righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like thee?

Update Bible Version
Your righteousness also, O God, is very high; You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like to thee!

Bible in Basic English
Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast brought me to greate honoure, & comforted me on euery syde.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

Legacy Standard Bible
For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,You who have done great things;O God, who is like You?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. ¹⁵ My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. ¹⁶ I will go in the strength of the Lord God : I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. ¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. ¹⁸ Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. ¹⁹ Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! ²⁰ Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. ²¹ Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. ²² I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. ²³ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thy righteousness: Psalms 36:5, Psalms 36:6, Psalms 57:10, Psalms 139:6, Proverbs 15:24, Proverbs 24:7, Isaiah 5:16, Isaiah 55:9

who hast: Psalms 72:18, Psalms 126:2, Psalms 126:3, Job 5:9

who is like: God is alone - who can resemble Him? He is that eternal, illimitable, unimpartible, unchangeable, incomprehensible, uncompounded, ineffable Being, whose essence is hidden from all created intelligences, and whose counsels cannot be fathomed by any creature. Psalms 35:10, Psalms 86:8, Psalms 89:6-8, Exodus 15:11, Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25, Jeremiah 10:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:24 - what God 1 Samuel 2:2 - rock Psalms 22:22 - I will Psalms 71:16 - thy righteousness Psalms 89:8 - like Psalms 145:7 - sing Isaiah 42:21 - well Isaiah 54:17 - and their Daniel 4:3 - great Joel 2:21 - for Micah 6:5 - know Micah 7:18 - a God Luke 1:49 - hath Romans 10:3 - God's righteousness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high,.... Or, "unto [the place] on high" f; it reaches unto heaven, as the mercy, truth, and faithfulness of God, are said to do, Psalms 36:5. The righteousness of Christ is accepted of with God the Father in heaven; it is in Christ, who is there at the right hand of God; and it is higher and infinitely above any righteousness of a creature, angel's or man's;

who hast done great things; in nature, in forming the world out of nothing, and in upholding all creatures in their beings; in providence, in governing the world, and ordering all things in it for the best, and to answer the wisest purposes; in grace, in the salvation of lost sinners by Christ; in the justification of them by his righteousness; and in the atonement and pardon of their sins, through his blood and sacrifice; in the regeneration of them by his grace; in making and performing exceeding great and precious promises, and in giving them eternal life;

O God, who [is] like unto thee? either for greatness or goodness; for power or for mercy; for justice, truth, and faithfulness; for the perfections of his nature, or the works of his hands; and to be praised, reverenced and adored, as he is; see Psalms 89:6.

f עד מרום "usque in excelsum", Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus; "in altum usque", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high - See the notes at Psalms 36:5. The purpose of the psalmist is to exalt that righteousness as much as possible, and he, therefore, compares it with that which is high - the heavens - the highest thing of all. The literal rendering would be, “even to the high,” or the height; that is, to the highest place. The passage is designed to express his confidence in God, in the infirmities and troubles which he must expect to come upon him with advancing years.

Who hast done great things - In his work of creation; in his providence; in his manifested mercy toward his people. He had done things so great as to show that he could protect those who put their trust in him.

O God, who is like unto thee! - Who can be compared to thee! See the notes at Psalms 35:10. Compare the notes at Isaiah 40:18. See also Psalms 89:8; Exodus 15:11; 2 Samuel 7:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 71:19. Thy righteousness - is very high — עד מרום ad marom - is up to the exalted place, reaches up to heaven. The mercy of God fills all space and place. It crowns in the heavens what it governed upon earth.

Who hast done great things — גדלות gedoloth. Thou hast worked miracles, and displayed the greatest acts of power.

Who is like unto thee! — מי כמוך mi camocha. God is alone, - who can resemble him? He is eternal. He can have none before, and there can be none after; for in the infinite unity of his trinity he is that eternal, unlimited, impartible, incomprehensible, and uncompounded ineffable Being, whose essence is hidden from all created intelligences, and whose counsels cannot be fathomed by any creature that even his own hand can form. WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE! will excite the wonder, amazement, praise, and adoration of angels and men to all eternity.