Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.Psalm 36:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThy righteousness is like the great mountains - כהררי אל keharerey El, like the mountains of God; exceeding high mountains; what, in the present language of geology, would be called primitive mountains, those that were formed at the beginning; and are not the effects of earthquakes or inundations, as secondary and alluvial mountains are supposed to be.
Thy judgments are a great deep - תהום רבה tehom rabbah, the great abyss; as incomprehensible as the great chaos, or first matter of all things which God created in the beginning, and which is mentioned Genesis 1:2, and darkness was on the face, תהום tehom, of the deep, the vast profound, or what is below all conjecturable profundity. How astonishing are the thoughts in these two verses! What an idea do they give us of the mercy, truth, righteousness, and judgments of God!
The old Psalter, in paraphrasing mountains of God, says, Thi ryghtwisnes, that es, ryghtwis men, er gastly hilles of God; for that er hee in contemplacioun, and soner resayves the lyght of Crist. Here is a metaphor taken from the tops of mountains and high hills first catching the rays of the rising sun. "Righteous men are spiritual hills of God; for they are high in contemplation, and sooner receive the light of Christ." It is really a very fine thought; and much beyond the rudeness of the times in which this Psalter was written.
Man and beast - Doth God take care of cattle? Yes, he appoints the lions their food, and hears the cry of the young ravens; and will he not provide for the poor, especially the poor of his people? He will. So infinitely and intensely good is the nature of God, that it is his delight to make all his creatures happy. He preserves the man, and he preserves the beast; and it is his providence which supplies the man, when his propensities and actions level him with the beasts that perish.
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righteousness
Psalm 71:19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!
Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Psalm 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Genesis 18:25 That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked...
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Isaiah 45:19,21-24 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain...
Romans 3:25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
great mountains [heb.] mountains of God
Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
1 Samuel 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled...
judgments
Psalm 77:19 Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.
Psalm 92:5 O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
Job 11:7-9 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty to perfection...
Job 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice...
Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not...
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper?...
Matthew 11:25,26 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth...
Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
thou
Psalm 104:14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalm 147:9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Job 7:20 I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you...
Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city...
Matthew 10:29,30 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father...
1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men...
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