Psalms 36:6

Jehovah's righteousness His faithfulness to His character and covenant (Psalms 5:8), manifested alike in mercy and in judgement is like the mountains of God (El), immovably firm (Psalms 111:3), eternally unchanged, majestically conspicuous. God's works proclaim their Author, and reflect His attributes. Cp. Psalms 104:16; Psalms 65:9; Psalms 80:10. The great mountainsis a paraphrase which obscures the meaning.

a great deep Mysterious, unfathomable, inexhaustible, as the vast subterranean abyss of waters (Psalms 33:7; Genesis 7:11; Job 28:14; Job 38:16). Cp. Romans 11:33.

preservest Or, savest. The lower animals are the objects of God's care as well as man. See Psalms 104:14; Psalms 104:27-28; Psalms 147:9; Jonah 4:11; Matthew 6:26 ff; Matthew 10:29 ff.