Psalm 36:6 {35:7}
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.

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.

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.

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

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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

righteousness

Psalm 71:19 And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Psalm 145:17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

Isaiah 45:19,21-24 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things. . . .

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

great mountains [heb.

Exodus 9:28 Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.

1 Samuel 14:15 And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.

judgments

Psalm 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Psalm 92:5 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

Job 11:7-9 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .

Job 37:23 We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Isaiah 40:28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Matthew 11:25,26 At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. . . .

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

thou

Psalm 104:14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Psalm 145:9 The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Psalm 147:9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Job 7:20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Jonah 4:11 And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Matthew 10:29,30 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. . . .

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

Context
The Transgression of the Wicked
5O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds. 6Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:7O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the cover of thy wings.…
Cross References
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

Nehemiah 9:6
Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.

Job 7:20
I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Psalm 68:15
The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.

Psalm 71:19
And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

Psalm 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Psalm 92:5
O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

Psalm 104:14
Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Psalm 104:15
And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Psalm 145:16
Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.

Jonah 4:11
And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Psalm 36:5
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