Psalms 119:91
"Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains."
Key Reflection
The psalmist extols God’s enduring faithfulness, a characteristic that spans all generations. By mentioning the established earth remaining, the speaker underscores how God's constancy is reflected in creation itself, linking divine reliability to the permanence of the natural world known by ancient Israelites. This verse would have resonated with the idea that God’s faithful nature was as unchanging and certain as the stable order of the cosmos they observed daily.
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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes