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Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
5Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
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Mountains and a great deep give scale to God’s righteousness and judgments, while the closing words bring that vastness close to the lives of people and animals.
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Romans 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!Both passages describe God’s judgments through depth, with Romans declaring them beyond human searching.
Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand …Both passages include animals within God’s care for people, with Jonah naming God’s concern for Nineveh.
Psalm 92:5How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.Both psalms use depth to speak of God, describing his judgments in one and his thoughts in the other.
Nehemiah 9:6You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all …Both passages name the LORD as the one who preserves life, with Nehemiah extending that praise across creation.
Zechariah 6:1Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.Mountains appear in both passages, though Zechariah describes a vision of chariots rather than comparing mountains to God’s righteousness.
Isaiah 40:28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is …Both passages speak of God’s vastness, through the depth of his judgments and the unsearchable reach of his understanding.
Psalm 77:19Your way was through the sea, your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.Both psalms use deep waters in speaking of God, though one describes his judgments and the other his hidden footsteps.
Genesis 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.Both passages link God’s care for people with his care for animals, as Genesis recounts God remembering those aboard the ship.
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?Both address God’s attention to human life, though Job experiences that attention as a burden while the psalm praises God’s preservation.
Job 37:23We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.Both passages affirm God’s righteousness and justice, using language that conveys his greatness beyond human reach.
Psalm 71:19God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?Both psalms describe God’s righteousness with immense height, comparing it to mountains or saying it reaches the heavens.
Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.Both passages affirm God’s righteousness and justice, using mountains and the name Rock to speak of him.
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God’s judgments may exceed what you can fathom. The same verse that speaks of their depth names his care for living creatures: “LORD, you preserve man and animal.”
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