John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains ,.... Or, "the mountains of God"; so called for their excellency, as the cedars of God, Psalm 80:10 ; or, as Gussetius F5 Ebr. Comment. p. 66. observes, the greatest and highest mountains, which are here meant, reaching above the clouds and the region of the air, are the pillars of the palace of God, and a part of it; and therefore called his mountains with great propriety, to which his righteousness is compared: that is, either the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 36:5-12
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 sudden, he turns his eye, and heart, and speech, to God ?However it be, yet thou art good.? He... read more