Psalms 57:10
because your faithful love for us is as great as the distance from the earth to the sky, and because your ◄faithfulness/faithfully doing what you promise► is as great as the distance up to the clouds [MET].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
In Context
9Lord, I will thank you among all the people; and I will sing to praise you among many ethnic groups,
11God, show in the heavens that you are very great! And show your glory to people all over the earth!
Cross References
Psalms 18:50He has enabled me, his king, to powerfully defeat my enemies; he faithfully loves me, David, the one he has chosen to be king, and he will faithfully love my descendants forever.
Psalms 59:17God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
Psalms 85:10When that happens, he will both faithfully love us and faithfully do for us what he promised to do [PRS]; and we will act/behave righteously, and he will give us peace, which will be like a kiss that he gives us.
Psalms 103:11The skies are very high above the earth, and Yahweh’s faithful love for all those who revere him is just as great.
Isaiah 54:7I abandoned you people of Jerusalem for a while, but now I am saying, ‘I will take you back.’
Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:8-11
Prayer Turned to Praise. 7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. 8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. 9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. 10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. How strangely is the tune altered here! David's prayers and complaints, by the lively actings… Read the whole commentary →