Eighteen verses where the psalms name God's faithfulness, praise it, question it, and taste his goodness.
Faithfulness in the psalms is usually paired with loving kindness, and it is measured in large units: it reaches to the skies, it lasts to all generations. The psalms also let people ask where it has gone. Psalm 89 opens by singing of God's faithfulness and later asks where his former loving kindnesses are. Both kinds of verse are here, along with a group on God's goodness.
The verses are grouped: faithfulness as high as the skies, faithful to all generations, faithful in what he says, when faithfulness is in question, and God's goodness. Each shows the World English Bible text and a note. Tick any and print them as one sheet.
Verses that measure God's faithfulness by the largest things the writers could see, or by every hour of the day.
Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens.Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Loving kindness in the heavens and faithfulness reaching to the skies. The verse comes straight after a description of a wicked man plotting on his bed, and answers with something far larger.
He will cover you with his feathers.Under his wings you will take refuge.His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
The verse begins with feathers and wings, then names his faithfulness as shield and rampart. Shelter and defence sit in one line.
to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,and your faithfulness every night,
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Loving kindness in the morning and faithfulness every night. The verse gives the day two ends and something to say at each.
Faithfulness measured in time rather than height.
For the LORD is good.His loving kindness endures forever,his faithfulness to all generations.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Three short claims: the LORD is good, his loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations. It is the last verse of a psalm that begins by calling all lands to shout for joy.
Your faithfulness is to all generations.You have established the earth, and it remains.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Faithfulness is set beside the earth itself: you have established the earth, and it remains. The ground underfoot is the evidence offered.
I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever.With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
The writer promises to make God's faithfulness known to all generations. The heading attributes the psalm to Ethan the Ezrahite.
For his loving kindness is great toward us.The LORD’s faithfulness endures forever.Praise the LORD!
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 117 is two verses long, and the second is this: his loving kindness is great toward us, and the LORD's faithfulness endures forever.
Faithfulness tied to God's word, his promises and his prayers answered.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.Your dominion endures throughout all generations.The LORD is faithful in all his words,and loving in all his deeds.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
The LORD is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds. This line is in the World English Bible but not in the King James Version, which ends the verse at all generations.
For the LORD’s word is right.All his work is done in faithfulness.
For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
The LORD's word is right, and all his work is done in faithfulness. Word and work are held to the same standard.
He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. God is said to remember his faithfulness, and all the ends of the earth see the result.
Hear my prayer, LORD.Listen to my petitions.In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
A prayer that appeals to faithfulness directly: in your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me. The next verse admits that no one living is righteous in God's sight, so the request rests on who God is.
The psalms do not only praise faithfulness. They also ask where it is.
Has his loving kindness vanished forever?Does his promise fail for generations?
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? The psalm asks both out loud before it turns to remembering God's deeds of old in verse 11.
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
The psalm that opened by singing of faithfulness now asks: where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David? It still closes with blessed be the LORD forever more.
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Is your faithfulness declared in Destruction? Psalm 88 ends without any turn to praise, and this question is left unanswered.
Goodness and faithfulness sit together in Psalm 100:5. These verses name goodness on its own.
Oh taste and see that the LORD is good.Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Taste and see that the LORD is good. Goodness is something to try for yourself, not only to be told about.
The LORD is good to all.His tender mercies are over all his works.
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
The LORD is good to all. The verse widens it further: his tender mercies are over all his works.
Oh how great is your goodness,which you have laid up for those who fear you,which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,before the sons of men!
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Goodness is laid up for those who fear God, like something stored in advance, and worked openly before the sons of men.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life. Goodness is pictured as following the writer, not waiting to be found.
Psalm 89 uses the word faithfulness more than any other psalm, seven times in the World English Bible, starting at 89:1. Psalm 36:5, Psalm 100:5 and Psalm 117:2 each say it in one line.
Psalm 36:5: your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 108:4 has the same line.
Psalm 100:5 and Psalm 119:90 both say so, and Psalm 89:1 promises to make it known to all generations.
Psalm 34:8 says taste and see that the LORD is good, Psalm 145:9 says the LORD is good to all, and Psalm 23:6 says goodness and loving kindness shall follow me.
Sometimes. Psalm 36:5, 89:1 and 92:2 say faithfulness in both versions. In Psalm 100:5, 117:2 and 91:4 the King James Version says truth where the World English Bible says faithfulness.
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