Mazmur 36:5

36:5 O Lord, your loyal love reaches to the sky; ¹ 

your faithfulness to the clouds. ² 

Mazmur 71:19

71:19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; ³ 

you have done great things. ⁴ 

O God, who can compare to you? ⁵ 

Mazmur 85:10-11

85:10 Loyal love and faithfulness meet; ⁶ 

deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. ⁷ 

85:11 Faithfulness grows from the ground,

and deliverance looks down from the sky. ⁸ 

Mazmur 89:1-2

Psalm 89 ⁹ 

A well-written song ¹⁰  by Ethan the Ezrachite.

89:1 I will sing continually ¹¹  about the Lord’s faithful deeds;

to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness. ¹² 

89:2 For I say, “Loyal love is permanently established; ¹³ 

in the skies you set up your faithfulness.” ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 103:11

103:11 For as the skies are high above the earth,

so his loyal love towers ¹⁵  over his faithful followers. ¹⁶ 

Mazmur 108:4

108:4 For your loyal love extends beyond the sky, ¹⁷ 

and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

[36:5]  ¹ tn Heb “[is] in the heavens.”

[36:5]  ² sn The Lord’s loyal love/faithfulness is almost limitless. He is loyal and faithful to his creation and blesses mankind and the animal kingdom with physical life and sustenance (vv. 6-9).

[71:19]  ³ tn Heb “your justice, O God, [is] unto the height.” The Hebrew term מָרוֹם (marom, “height”) is here a title for the sky/heavens.

[71:19]  sn Extends to the skies above. Similar statements are made in Pss 36:5 and 57:10.

[71:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “you who have done great things.”

[71:19]  ⁵ tn Or “Who is like you?”

[85:10]  ⁶ tn The psalmist probably uses the perfect verbal forms in v. 10 in a dramatic or rhetorical manner, describing what he anticipates as if it were already occurring or had already occurred.

[85:10]  ⁷ sn Deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss. The psalmist personifies these abstract qualities to emphasize that God’s loyal love and faithfulness will yield deliverance and peace for his people.

[85:11]  ⁸ sn The psalmist already sees undeniable signs of God’s faithfulness and expects deliverance to arrive soon.

[89:1]  ⁹ sn Psalm 89. The psalmist praises God as the sovereign creator of the world. He recalls God’s covenant with David, but then laments that the promises of the covenant remain unrealized. The covenant promised the Davidic king military victories, but the king has now been subjected to humiliating defeat.

[89:1]  ¹⁰ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. See the note on the phrase “well-written song” in the superscription of Ps 88.

[89:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “forever.”

[89:1]  ¹² tn Heb “to a generation and a generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.”

[89:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “built.”

[89:2]  ¹⁴ sn You set up your faithfulness. This may allude to the Lord’s heavenly throne, which symbolizes his just rule and from which the Lord decrees his unconditional promises (see vv. 8, 14).

[103:11]  ¹⁵ tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[103:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[108:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for great upon the sky [or “heavens”] [is] your loyal love.”