Psalms 36:6

"Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies."

Key Reflection

In Psalm 36:6, the psalmist extols the Lord's enduring and boundless mercy, likening it not just to what can be seen in the heavens above, but extending even beyond them into infinity. This imagery underscores a profound sense of divine love that transcends earthly limitations, reaching to the very edges of creation, reflecting the eternal and unchanging nature of God’s faithfulness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thy righteousness -Thy justice; that is, the justice of God considered as residing in his own nature; his justice in his laws; his justice in his providential dealings; his justice in his plan of delivering man from sin; his justice to the universe in administering the rewards and penalties of the law. Is like the great mountains -Margin, as in Hebrew: “the mountains of God.” The name “God” is thus, in the Scriptures, often given to that which is great or exalted, as God is the greatest Being that the mind can form any conception of.

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