Psalms 138:2

Read in context

Psalms 138:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 I give You thanks with all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.

2 I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

3 On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

4 All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Psalms 138:2

Read the commentary on Psalms 138

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 5:7

But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

Psalms 28:2

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Psalms 99:5

Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!

Psalms 99:9

Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.

1 Kings 8:29

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:30

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

Daniel 6:10

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Psalms 36:5

Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Psalms 36:6

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Psalms 85:10

Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Psalms 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Psalms 89:1

I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

Psalms 89:2

For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

Psalms 100:4

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.

Psalms 100:5

For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.

Psalms 115:1

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Luke 1:68

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 1:70

as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,

Luke 1:71

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

Romans 15:9

so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Psalms 56:4

In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalms 56:10

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

Isaiah 42:21

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

Matthew 5:18

For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

John 10:35

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—