10620. 'Keeping goodness for thousands' means eternally so. This is clear from the meaning of 'goodness', when it has regard to Jehovah, as absolute Goodness, as immediately above in 10619; and from the meaning of 'for thousands' as perpetually and eternally, dealt with in 2575, 8715.
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