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

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

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.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

⁷ For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

⁸ In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.

⁹ For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

¹⁰ For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

⁹ Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

¹⁰ And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

¹¹ And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

¹³ I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

¹⁴ And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,

¹⁵ And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.

¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.

¹⁰ Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

¹¹ Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

¹ <Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.

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

¹⁷ So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

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;