⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

⁴ For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

¹¹ For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.

¹⁰ For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

¹⁹ And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

²⁰ Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

⁵ For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

² To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

² For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?