King James Version
Psalms 71:19 in the King James Version says “Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 71 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!”
Psalms 71:19 · KJV
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. when: Heb. unto old age and gray hairs thy strength: Heb. thine arm
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thy righteousness”
H6666rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
“O God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“is very high”
H4791altitude, i.e., concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“O God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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