Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Psalms 92:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 92:5: The petition “O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are…” belongs to the prayer “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice,” not to an isolated command.
Sabbath thanks keeps morning and night when wicked grass looks tall
This verse is one part of that explanation in Psalms 92:1–15. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Psalms 92:1–15
Read Psalms 92:5 with 92:1–15. Read alone, “O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 92:1–15, the communal voice carries the movement “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice” as part of “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice.” Its sabbath-hymn form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 92:1–15 opens Psalm 92 with “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name,…” and establishes the communal voice and “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 92:5 directs a petition or address toward God in “O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep” rather than turning the line into a command against another person.
What Remains True
In “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice,” Psalm 92:5 directs a petition or address toward God in “O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep” rather than turning the line into a command against another person. The resulting truth stays bounded by this movement: Praise and prayer become truthful when they attend to people harmed by predatory power and pursue protection, generosity, and fair judgment. The local movement is “Sabbath praise for steadfast justice.” The unit's reviewed limit is: The Sabbath heading is an ancient liturgical assignment; flourishing imagery is communal hope, not a health-and-wealth contract.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 92:1–15 — Sabbath praise for steadfast justiceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 92:1–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 92:1–15
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 92:1–15.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 92 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 92:1–15
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