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Psalms 92:5
How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the LORD in worship, positioned between a declaration of joy in God’s deeds and a warning that the fool lacks understanding.
The words — עָמְק֥וּ ('a.me.Ku) = they are deep and מַה־ (mah-) = how. These terms structure the verse’s direct exclamation of divine magnitude and inscrutability.
The thread — The contrast between divine depth and human limitation runs through Romans 11:33, Isaiah 55:8, and Psalms 40:5. Each passage places God’s wisdom and plans beyond human tracing or comparison.
Why it lands — The text explicitly states that God’s works are great and His thoughts are deep. It requires the reader to acknowledge that divine action and counsel exceed human calculation and to align understanding with revealed truth rather than personal insight.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Cross-references
- Romans 11:33 O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
- Psalms 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
- Psalms 139:17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
- Psalms 145:3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- 1 Corinthians 2:10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- Psalms 111:2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
- Revelation 15:3 and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- Psalms 104:24 How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
- Isaiah 28:29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.