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5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-12)David, having looked round with grief upon the wickedness of the wicked, here looks up with comfort upon the goodness of God, a subject as delightful as the former was distasteful and very proper to be set in the balance against it. Observe, I. His meditations upon the grace of God. He sees the world polluted, himself endangered, and God dishonoured, by the transgressions of the wicked; but, of a…
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