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Psalms 36:6

Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains,.... Or, "the mountains of God"; so called for their excellency, as the cedars of God, Psa 80:10; or, as Gussetius (e) observes, the greatest and highest…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Thy righteousness - Thy justice; that is, the justice of God considered as residing in his own nature; his justice in his laws; his justice in his providential dealings; his justice in his plan of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 36:5-12

David, having looked round with grief upon the wickedness of the wicked, here looks up with comfort upon the goodness of God, a subject as delightful as the former was distasteful and very proper to…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Jehovah's righteousness His faithfulness to His character and covenant (Psa 5:8), manifested alike in mercy and in judgement is like the mountains of God (El), immovably firm (Psa 111:3), eternally…