11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 36:7
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 36:7 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- KJV King James Version
- How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
- ASV American Standard Version
- How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- How precious [is] Your kindness, O God, || And the sons of men trust || In the shadow of Your wings.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- God, how priceless is your trustworthy love! Everyone can find protection under the shelter of your wings.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.
- DBY Darby Translation
- How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 35:8 in this edition
- O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַה־ | mah- | How | H4100 מָה what? |
| יָּקָ֥ר | yā·qār | precious | H3368 יָקָר precious |
| חַסְדְּךָ֗ | ḥas·də·ḵā | is Your loving devotion | H2617 חֶ֫סֶד kindness |
| אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים | ’ĕ·lō·hîm | O God | H430 אֱלֹהִים God |
| וּבְנֵ֥י | ū·ḇə·nê | that the children | H1121 בֵּן son: child |
| אָדָ֑ם | ’ā·ḏām | of men | H120 אָדָם man |
| בְּצֵ֥ל | bə·ṣêl | in the shadow | H6738 צֵל shadow |
| כְּ֝נָפֶ֗יךָ | kə·nā·p̄e·ḵā | of Your wings | H3671 כָּנָף wing |
| יֶחֱסָיֽוּן׃ | ye·ḥĕ·sā·yūn | take refuge | H2620 חָסָה to seek refuge |
Related verses
- Psalm 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Ruth 2:12
May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
- Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
- 1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
- 1 John 4:9–10
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
- Psalm 139:17
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Psalm 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
- Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Psalm 86:15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
Read all of Psalm 36 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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