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6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
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Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-12)David, having looked round with grief upon the wickedness of the wicked, here looks up with comfort upon the goodness of God, a subject as delightful as the former was distasteful and very proper to be set in the balance against it. Observe, I. His meditations upon the grace of God. He sees the world polluted, himself endangered, and God dishonoured, by the transgressions of the wicked; but, of a…
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