English Standard Version
Psalms 92:5
5How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!
Psalms 92:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- New International Version (NIV)How great are your works, Lord, how profound your thoughts!
- New King James Version (NKJV)O Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.
- New Living Translation (NLT)O Lord, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.
Context of Psalms 92:5
3to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. 4For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep! 6The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this: 7that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
Read all of Psalms 92Psalms 92:5 word by word
מַה־גָּדְל֣וּ מַעֲשֶׂ֣יךָ יְהוָ֑ה מְ֝אֹ֗ד עָמְק֥וּ מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 92:5
- Psalms 40:5You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
- Psalms 66:3Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
- Psalms 104:24O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
- Psalms 111:2Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
- Psalms 145:3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
- Psalms 139:17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
- Isaiah 28:29This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
- Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:20The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
- Psalms 64:6They search out injustice, saying, "We have accomplished a diligent search." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
- Ecclesiastes 7:24That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?
- 1 Corinthians 2:10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Commentaries on Psalms 92:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Hour great are thy works! - They are multitudinous, stupendous, and splendid: and thy thoughts - thy designs and counsels, from which, by which, and in reference to which, they have been formed; are very deep - so profound as not to be fathomed by the comprehension of man.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5O Lord, how great are thy works! - Compare Psalm 8:3; Psalm 40:5. See also the notes at Job 11:7. The meaning here is this: The psalmist, on the Sabbath, in giving himself to meditation on the works of God, is overwhelmed with a sense of their vastness, their incomprehensible nature, and the depth of wisdom evinced, far beyond the grasp of man, in what God had done. How soon is man lost; how soon does he get beyond his depth; how soon does he feel that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6The Lord’s thoughts confuse those who lack understanding or act foolishly, and those who do not seek wisdom (Proverbs 1:22; 10:23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. great ... works--correspond to deep or vast thoughts (Psa 40:5; Ro 11:23).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 92
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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