Psalm 71:19
New International Version
Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things. Who is like you, God?

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?

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You?

NASB 1977
For Thy righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens, Thou who hast done great things; O God, who is like Thee?

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your righteousness reaches heaven, God, You who have done great things; God, who is like You?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And your righteousness, oh God, is unto The Highest Place, and the great things that you have done! Who is like you?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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?

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
and thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast 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?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God. You have done great things. O God, who is like you?

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

International Standard Version
Your many righteous deeds, God, are great,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy righteousness also, O God, which reacheth unto high heaven; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto Thee?

Literal Standard Version
And Your righteousness, O God, [is] to the heights, | Because You have done great things, | O God, who [is] like You?

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

New American Bible
and justice, God, to the highest heaven. You have done great things; O God, who is your equal?

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

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

New Heart English Bible
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. 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!

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

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?

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Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come. 19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You? 20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.…

Cross References
Luke 1:49
For the Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy is His name.

Exodus 15:11
Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You--majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

Deuteronomy 3:24
"O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

Psalm 35:10
All my bones will exclaim, "Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?"

Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

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

Psalm 77:13
Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?


Treasury of Scripture

Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!

Thy righteousness

Psalm 36:5,6
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds…

Psalm 57:10
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

Psalm 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

who hast

Psalm 72:18
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

Psalm 126:2,3
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them…

Job 5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

who is like.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Psalm 86:8
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

Psalm 89:6-8
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? …

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Psalm 71
1. David, in confidence of faith, and experience of God's favor, prays both for himself,
10. and against the enemies of his soul
14. He promises constancy
17. He prays for perseverance
19. He praises God, and promises to do it cheerfully














(19) Very high.--Literally, to the height, i.e., to the heavens, as in Psalm 36:5; Psalm 57:10. The clauses should be arranged, Thy righteousness also, O God, to the height--Thou who doest great things--God, who is like unto thee? (Comp. Exodus 15:11.)

Verse 19. - Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; or, reaches to the height (comp. Psalm 7:7; Psalm 10:5; Psalm 18:16, etc.). Who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! (comp. Psalm 35:10; Psalm 89:6, 8).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your righteousness
וְצִדְקָתְךָ֥ (wə·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

[reaches] to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the heavens,
מָ֫ר֥וֹם (mā·rō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4791: Altitude

O God,
אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

You who
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

have done
עָשִׂ֥יתָ (‘ā·śî·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

great things.
גְדֹל֑וֹת (ḡə·ḏō·lō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

Who,
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

O God,
אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is like You?
כָמֽוֹךָ׃ (ḵā·mō·w·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when


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