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Psalms 71:19

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Thy righteousness: Psalms 36:5-6, Psalms 57:10, Psalms 139:6; Proverbs 15:24, Proverbs 24:7; Isaiah 5:16, Isaiah 55:9

who hast: Psalms 72:18, Psalms 126:2-3; Job 5:9

who is like: God is alone - who can resemble Him? He is that eternal, illimitable, unimpartible, unchangeable, incomprehensible, uncompounded, ineffable Being, whose essence is hidden from all created intelligences, and whose counsels cannot be fathomed by any creature. Psalms 35:10, Psalms 86:8, Psalms 89:6-8; Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25; Jeremiah 10:7

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