Verse 6
6. Righteousness “Righteousness” allies with the holiness of God, and is manifested as well in punishing sin as in upholding the just. It is the guard of law.
Great mountains Hebrew, mountains of God, a Hebraism for greatness, strength, firmness.
Judgments Administrations, God’s pronounced sentences of justice and right.
Deep Same word as in Genesis 1:2. The abyss of the ocean: here meaning depths of wisdom and mystery.
Preservest man and beast God’s protective care, in connexion with his righteousness and judgments, is exhibited in his government over rational and irrational beings. There would thus seem to be an impressive moral in his treatment of the inferior orders. Cruelty to animals is a sin against God.
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