Psalms 36:6

Your justice is like the highest mountains, ¹  your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve ²  mankind and the animal kingdom. ³ 

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O LORD, you preserve both man and beast.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD.

His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

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

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD.

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Your justice is like the highest mountains, ¹  your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve ²  mankind and the animal kingdom. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “mountains of God.” The divine name אֵל (’el, “God”) is here used in an idiomatic manner to indicate the superlative.

² tn Or “deliver.”

³ sn God’s justice/fairness is firm and reliable like the highest mountains and as abundant as the water in the deepest sea. The psalmist uses a legal metaphor to describe God’s preservation of his creation. Like a just judge who vindicates the innocent, God protects his creation from destructive forces.