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Psalms 36:6
Psalms 36:6 is verse 6 of Psalms chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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 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. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
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Psalms 36:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
5 Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
8 They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
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Cross-references
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Psalms 71:19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
Psalms 97:2Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
Psalms 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
Genesis 18:25Far 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?”
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
Isaiah 45:19I 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.
Isaiah 45:21Speak 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; there is none but Me.
Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
Isaiah 45:24Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.
Romans 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Exodus 9:28Pray 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 14:15Then terror 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.
Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
Psalms 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Job 11:7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Job 11:9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Job 37:23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
Isaiah 40:28Do 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.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Matthew 11:26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Psalms 104:15wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
Psalms 104:16The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
Psalms 104:17where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Psalms 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
Psalms 104:20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Psalms 104:21The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Psalms 104:22The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
Psalms 104:23Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
Psalms 104:24How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Psalms 104:25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
Psalms 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
Psalms 104:28When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Psalms 104:30When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
Psalms 104:31May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in His works.
Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
Psalms 104:33I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms 104:34May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
Psalms 104:35May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
Psalms 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Psalms 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Job 7:20If 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 4:11So 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?”
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
1 Timothy 4:10To 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.