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You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/psalms/36.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/36.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/36.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/36.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Thy righteousness <i>is</i> like the great mountains; thy judgments <i>are</i> a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/36.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Your righteousness <i>is</i> like the great mountains; Your judgments <i>are</i> a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/36.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are <i>like</i> the great deep. LORD, You protect mankind and animals.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/36.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/36.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are <i>like</i> a great deep. O LORD, Thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/36.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are <i>like</i> a great deep. O Yahweh, You save man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/36.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/36.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your judgments like the deepest sea. LORD, you preserve people and animals.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/36.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments, like the deepest sea. LORD, You preserve man and beast. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/36.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/36.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your decisions are always fair. They are firm like mountains, deep like the sea, and all people and animals are under your care. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/36.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/36.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments like the deep ocean. You save people and animals, O LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/36.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Your righteousness is towering like the mountains; your justice is like the depths of the sea. People and animals are in your care. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/36.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/36.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/36.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/36.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/36.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/36.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/36.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, "" Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/36.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/36.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thy justice as the mountains of God; thy judgments a great deep: man and cattle thou wilt save, O Jehovah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/36.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord : <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/36.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 35:7>Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/36.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Your justice is like the highest mountains; your judgments, like the mighty deep; human being and beast you sustain, LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/36.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/36.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Thy righteouness is like the mountain of God; thy judgments are like a great deep; O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/36.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />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!<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/36.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thy righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Thy judgments are like the great deep; Man and beast Thou preservest, O LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/36.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/36-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=4051" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/36.htm">The Transgression of the Wicked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6666.htm" title="6666: ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā (N-fsc:: 2ms) -- Righteousness. From tsadaq; rightness, subjectively, objectively, morally or figuratively.">Your righteousness</a> <a href="/hebrew/410.htm" title="410: ’êl (N-ms) -- God, in pl. gods. Shortened from 'ayil; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty.">is like the highest</a> <a href="/hebrew/2042.htm" title="2042: kə·har·rê- (Prep-k:: N-mpc) -- Hill, mountain. From an unused root meaning to loom up; a mountain.">mountains;</a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: miš·pā·ṭe·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Judgment. ">Your judgments are</a> <a href="/hebrew/8415.htm" title="8415: tə·hō·wm (N-cs) -- Deep, sea, abyss. Or thom; from huwm; an abyss, especially the deep.">like the deepest sea.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7227.htm" title="7227: rab·bāh (Adj-fs) -- Much, many, great. By contracted from rabab; abundant."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">O LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3467.htm" title="3467: ṯō·wō·šî·a‘ (V-Hifil-Imperf-2ms) -- To deliver. A primitive root; properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. to be safe; causatively, to free or succor.">You preserve</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: ’ā·ḏām- (N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">man</a> <a href="/hebrew/929.htm" title="929: ū·ḇə·hê·māh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- A beast, animal, cattle. From an unused root; properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal.">and beast.</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/11-7.htm">Job 11:7-9</a></span><br />Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? / They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? / Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33</a></span><br />O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/57-10.htm">Psalm 57:10</a></span><br />For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/103-11.htm">Psalm 103:11</a></span><br />For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">Psalm 139:6</a></span><br />Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-9.htm">Isaiah 55:9</a></span><br />“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/3-18.htm">Ephesians 3:18-19</a></span><br />will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth / of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/31-37.htm">Jeremiah 31:37</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/5-9.htm">Job 5:9</a></span><br />the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/145-3.htm">Psalm 145:3</a></span><br />Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm">Isaiah 40:28</a></span><br />Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-10.htm">1 Corinthians 2:10-11</a></span><br />But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. / For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/36-26.htm">Job 36:26</a></span><br />Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/92-5.htm">Psalm 92:5</a></span><br />How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm">Isaiah 40:12</a></span><br />Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.</p><p class="hdg">righteousness</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/71-19.htm">Psalm 71:19</a></b></br> Thy righteousness also, O God, <i>is</i> very high, who hast done great things: O God, who <i>is</i> like unto thee!</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/97-2.htm">Psalm 97:2</a></b></br> Clouds and darkness <i>are</i> round about him: righteousness and judgment <i>are</i> the habitation of his throne.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/145-17.htm">Psalm 145:17</a></b></br> The LORD <i>is</i> righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.</p><p class="hdg">great mountains [heb.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/9-28.htm">Exodus 9:28</a></b></br> Intreat the LORD (for <i>it is</i> enough) that there be no <i>more</i> mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/14-15.htm">1 Samuel 14:15</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="hdg">judgments</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/77-19.htm">Psalm 77:19</a></b></br> Thy way <i>is</i> in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/92-5.htm">Psalm 92:5</a></b></br> O LORD, how great are thy works! <i>and</i> thy thoughts are very deep.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/11-7.htm">Job 11:7-9</a></b></br> Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? … </p><p class="hdg">thou</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/104-14.htm">Psalm 104:14</a></b></br> 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;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/145-9.htm">Psalm 145:9</a></b></br> The LORD <i>is</i> good to all: and his tender mercies <i>are</i> over all his works.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/147-9.htm">Psalm 147:9</a></b></br> He giveth to the beast his food, <i>and</i> to the young ravens which cry.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/39-15.htm">Animal</a> <a href="/job/40-15.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/psalms/36-1.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/psalms/35-27.htm">Great</a> <a href="/psalms/35-1.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/psalms/19-9.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/psalms/35-23.htm">Justice</a> <a href="/psalms/35-17.htm">Life</a> <a href="/psalms/35-18.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/psalms/18-7.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/psalms/32-7.htm">Preserve</a> <a href="/psalms/32-7.htm">Preservest</a> <a href="/psalms/35-28.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/psalms/18-27.htm">Savest</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/50-10.htm">Animal</a> <a href="/psalms/50-10.htm">Beast</a> <a href="/psalms/38-2.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/psalms/37-11.htm">Great</a> <a href="/psalms/50-4.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/psalms/48-11.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/psalms/37-6.htm">Justice</a> <a href="/psalms/36-9.htm">Life</a> <a href="/psalms/38-19.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/psalms/46-2.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/psalms/40-11.htm">Preserve</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-6.htm">Preservest</a> <a href="/psalms/36-10.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm">Savest</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 36</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/36-1.htm">The grievous state of the wicked</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/36-8.htm">The excellence of God's mercy</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/36-10.htm">David prays for favor to God's children</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/36.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/36.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the unchanging and majestic nature of God's righteousness. Mountains in biblical times were often seen as symbols of strength, stability, and permanence. The imagery of "the highest mountains" suggests that God's righteousness is elevated, unassailable, and visible to all. In the ancient Near East, mountains were also considered dwelling places of the divine, reinforcing the idea of God's supreme and holy nature. This connects to other scriptures such as <a href="/isaiah/2-2.htm">Isaiah 2:2</a>, which speaks of the mountain of the Lord's house being established as the highest of the mountains, symbolizing God's ultimate authority and righteousness.<p><b>Your judgments are like the deepest sea.</b><br>The comparison of God's judgments to the "deepest sea" highlights their unfathomable depth and mystery. The sea, particularly the depths, was often associated with chaos and the unknown in ancient cultures, yet here it signifies the profound wisdom and fairness of God's decisions. This imagery suggests that while humans may not fully comprehend God's judgments, they are vast and encompass all knowledge and truth. This can be related to <a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33</a>, where Paul exclaims the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God, whose judgments are unsearchable.<p><b>O LORD, You preserve man and beast.</b><br>This phrase underscores God's providential care and sustenance for all creation. The inclusion of both "man and beast" indicates the comprehensive scope of God's preservation, reflecting His role as Creator and Sustainer. This aligns with <a href="/genesis/1-30.htm">Genesis 1:30</a>, where God provides for every living creature, and <a href="/psalms/145-9.htm">Psalm 145:9</a>, which speaks of the Lord's goodness and compassion over all He has made. The preservation of life is a testament to God's ongoing involvement in the world, ensuring the continuity and flourishing of His creation. This also foreshadows the ultimate redemption and restoration of creation through Christ, as seen in <a href="/romans/8-21.htm">Romans 8:21</a>, where creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a></b><br>- The author of <a href="/bsb/psalms/36.htm">Psalm 36</a>, traditionally believed to be King David, who often wrote about God's attributes and His relationship with humanity.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/m/mountains.htm">Mountains</a></b><br>- Symbolic of strength, stability, and permanence, representing the unchanging and majestic nature of God's righteousness.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sea.htm">Sea</a></b><br>- Represents depth and mystery, illustrating the profound and unfathomable nature of God's judgments.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/l/lord.htm">LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>- The covenant name of God, emphasizing His eternal and unchanging nature.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/m/man_and_beast.htm">Man and Beast</a></b><br>- All of creation, highlighting God's providential care and preservation of life.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_righteousness_is_unchanging.htm">God's Righteousness is Unchanging</a></b><br>Just as mountains are immovable and enduring, so is God's righteousness. We can trust in His moral perfection and justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_depth_of_god's_judgments.htm">The Depth of God's Judgments</a></b><br>God's judgments are profound and beyond human comprehension. We should approach His decisions with humility and trust in His wisdom.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_providential_care.htm">God's Providential Care</a></b><br>God preserves both man and beast, showing His care for all creation. We are called to trust in His provision and care for our needs.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/reflecting_god's_righteousness.htm">Reflecting God's Righteousness</a></b><br>As believers, we are called to reflect God's righteousness in our lives, striving to live in a way that honors His unchanging nature.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Trust in God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Understanding the depth of God's judgments and His care for creation should lead us to trust in His sovereign plan for our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_36.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 36</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_supports_psalm_36_6's_deep_claims.htm">In Psalm 36:6, God’s judgments are likened to the deep—what historical or archaeological support exists for such extreme claims of divine intervention? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_psalm_58_6_invoke_violence.htm">Why does David, in Psalm 58, invoke violent divine judgment (verse 6) when other passages emphasize mercy?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_psalm_11_6_align_with_mercy.htm">How does Psalm 11:6's description of raining coals and brimstone fit with other biblical accounts that emphasize mercy over destruction?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_21's_judgment_align_with_god's_mercy.htm">How can the severe judgment imagery in Ezekiel 21 be reconciled with teachings elsewhere in Scripture about God's mercy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/36.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) <span class= "bld">Great mountains.</span>--See margin, and compare <a href="/psalms/80-10.htm" title="The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.">Psalm 80:10</a>, "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.<p><span class= "bld">A great deep.</span>--The reference, as usual, with the words <span class= "ital">deep, depth, </span>is to the great abyss of waters, of which the seas were regarded as the surface.<p>The twofold comparison in this verse recalls Wordsworth's lines--<p>"Two voices are there: one is of the sea.<p>One of the mountains--each a mighty voice."<p>but while to the modern poet the voice is <span class= "ital">Liberty, </span>to the ancient Hebrew it is <span class= "ital">Righteousness. </span>The majesty of the hills has often suggested the supremacy of right over wrong--<p>"Thou hast a voice, great mountain, to repeal<p>Large codes of fraud and woe."<p>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.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/36.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Thy righteousness is like the great mountains</span>; literally, <span class="accented">like the mountains of God</span>; 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. <span class="cmt_word">Thy judgments are a great</span> <span class="cmt_word">deep;</span> <span class="accented">i.e.<span class="cmt_word"></span></span> such as man cannot fathom - unsearchable - past finding out. <span class="cmt_word">O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.</span> 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/36-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Your righteousness</span><br /><span class="heb">צִדְקָֽתְךָ֨ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6666.htm">Strong's 6666: </a> </span><span class="str2">Rightness, subjectively, objectively</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is like the highest</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֗ל</span> <span class="translit">(’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_410.htm">Strong's 410: </a> </span><span class="str2">Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">mountains,</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּֽהַרְרֵי־</span> <span class="translit">(kə·har·rê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2042.htm">Strong's 2042: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hill, mountain </span><br /><br /><span class="word">Your judgments</span><br /><span class="heb">מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶךָ</span> <span class="translit">(miš·pā·ṭe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> </span><span class="str2">A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like the deepest sea.</span><br /><span class="heb">תְּה֣וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(tə·hō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8415.htm">Strong's 8415: </a> </span><span class="str2">An abyss, the deep</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O LORD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">You preserve</span><br /><span class="heb">תוֹשִׁ֣יעַ</span> <span class="translit">(ṯō·wō·šî·a‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3467.htm">Strong's 3467: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor</span><br /><br /><span class="word">man</span><br /><span class="heb">אָ֤דָֽם־</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḏām-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ruddy, a human being</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and beast.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְהֵמָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·hê·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_929.htm">Strong's 929: </a> </span><span class="str2">A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/36-6.htm">Psalm 36:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/36-6.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mountains (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/36-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 36:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 36:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/36-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 36:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 36:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>