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Sálmarnir 71:19
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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.
