Psalm 108:4

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

For great over the heavens is Your loving devotion, and up to the clouds is Your faithfulness.

Latin

…quia magna est super cælos misericordia tua, et usque ad nubes veritas tua.

Hebrew

English

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

This psalm combines two parts from David's other psalms (compare Psalms 57:5, 7–11; 60:5–12).

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 36:5
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 103:11
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
Ephesians 2:4–7
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Psalm 89:2
For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Psalm 85:10
Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
Psalm 89:5
The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psalm 113:4
The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.
Micah 7:18–20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?