Psalm 36:6
New International Version
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.

New Living Translation
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD.

English Standard Version
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

King James Bible
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

New King James Version
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

New American Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like the great deep. LORD, You protect mankind and animals.

NASB 1995
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

NASB 1977
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are like a great deep. O LORD, Thou preservest man and beast.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O Yahweh, You save man and beast.

Amplified Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Christian Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your judgments like the deepest sea. LORD, you preserve people and animals.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments, like the deepest sea. LORD, You preserve man and beast.

American Standard Version
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And your righteousness is like the mountains, Oh God, and your judgments like the great abyss! You save the children of man and beast, LORD JEHOVAH!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

Contemporary English Version
Your decisions are always fair. They are firm like mountains, deep like the sea, and all people and animals are under your care.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord :

English Revised Version
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments like the deep ocean. You save people and animals, O LORD.

Good News Translation
Your righteousness is towering like the mountains; your justice is like the depths of the sea. People and animals are in your care.

International Standard Version
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Thy judgments are like the great deep; Man and beast Thou preservest, O LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, | Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

New American Bible
Your justice is like the highest mountains; your judgments, like the mighty deep; human being and beast you sustain, LORD.

NET Bible
Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

New Revised Standard Version
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

World English Bible
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds. 6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast. 7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!…

Cross References
Romans 11:33
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Nehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Job 11:8
They are higher than the heavens--what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol--what can you know?

Psalm 68:15
A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.

Psalm 71:19
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

Psalm 77:19
Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.


Treasury of Scripture

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

righteousness

Psalm 71:19
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

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.

great mountains [heb.

Exodus 9:28
Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye 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, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

judgments

Psalm 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Psalm 92:5
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

Job 11:7-9
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …

thou

Psalm 104:14
He causeth 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 giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

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Psalm 36
1. The grievous state of the wicked
8. The excellence of God's mercy
10. David prays for favor to God's children














(6) Great mountains.--See margin, and compare Psalm 80:10, "cedars of God." So too the rain is called "God's brook." The epithet not only implies greatness and dignity, but also has reference to God as Creator.

A great deep.--The reference, as usual, with the words deep, depth, is to the great abyss of waters, of which the seas were regarded as the surface.

The twofold comparison in this verse recalls Wordsworth's lines--

"Two voices are there: one is of the sea.

One of the mountains--each a mighty voice."

but while to the modern poet the voice is Liberty, to the ancient Hebrew it is Righteousness. The majesty of the hills has often suggested the supremacy of right over wrong--

"Thou hast a voice, great mountain, to repeal

Large codes of fraud and woe."

The calm of the infinite sea has often soothed agitated souls. Hebrew poetry connected both immediately with God. the uplifted strength of the hills became an emblem of His eternal truth; the depth and expanse of the infinite sea of His outspread goodness and inexhaustible justice.

Verse 6. - Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; literally, like the mountains of God; and so Luther, Rosenmuller, Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne, and the Revised Version. According to the Hebrew idiom, this means "the very greatest mountains" - those which seem to stand the strongest and the firmest. Thy judgments are a great deep; i.e. such as man cannot fathom - unsearchable - past finding out. O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. The providential care of God for his creatures is another of his leading characteristics, and one especially deserving man's attention and gratitude. It is a form of his loving-kindness.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your righteousness
צִדְקָֽתְךָ֨ ׀ (ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

is like the highest
אֵ֗ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

mountains,
כְּֽהַרְרֵי־ (kə·har·rê-)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2042: Hill, mountain

Your judgments
מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶךָ (miš·pā·ṭe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

like the deepest sea.
תְּה֣וֹם (tə·hō·wm)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

O LORD,
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

You preserve
תוֹשִׁ֣יעַ (ṯō·wō·šî·a‘)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

man
אָ֤דָֽם־ (’ā·ḏām-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

and beast.
וּבְהֵמָ֖ה (ū·ḇə·hê·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal


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