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- Chapter 36
- Verse 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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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