Psalm 36:6 “Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are l…”

Psalm 36:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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. LORD, you preserve man and animal.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy righteousnesse is like the mightie moutaines: thy iudgements are like a great deepe: thou, Lord, doest saue man and beast.

Darby Translation

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

Young's Literal Translation

Thy righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Thy judgments [are] a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

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Cross references

“righteousness”

Psalm 71:19 Deuteronomy 32:4 Psalm 97:2 Isaiah 45:19 Genesis 18:25 Isaiah 45:21–24

Psalm 71:19 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 32:4 · BSB

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

Psalm 97:2 · BSB

Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

Isaiah 45:19 · BSB

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Genesis 18:25 · BSB

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Isaiah 45:21–24 · BSB

Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; ther…

“great mountains”

Exodus 9:28 1 Samuel 14:15

Exodus 9:28 · BSB

Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

1 Samuel 14:15 · BSB

Then panic struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked, and panic spread from God.

“judgments”

Romans 11:33 Psalm 77:19 Isaiah 40:28 Job 37:23 Psalm 92:5 Job 11:7–9

Romans 11:33 · BSB

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Psalm 77:19 · BSB

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

Isaiah 40:28 · BSB

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.

Job 37:23 · BSB

The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

Psalm 92:5 · BSB

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

Job 11:7–9 · BSB

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

“thou”

1 Timothy 4:10 Psalm 104:14–35 Psalm 145:9 Psalm 147:9 Job 7:20 Jonah 4:11

1 Timothy 4:10 · BSB

To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.

Psalm 104:14–35 · BSB

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalm 145:9 · BSB

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Psalm 147:9 · BSB

He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

Job 7:20 · BSB

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 ?

Jonah 4:11 · BSB

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

Also

Nehemiah 9:6 Psalm 145:16–17

Nehemiah 9:6 · BSB

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 Yo…

Psalm 145:16–17 · BSB

You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

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