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Psalm 36:5-6
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
In the King James Version
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
What was happening around this
The unnamed psalmist addresses Yahweh directly in vv. 5–6. Rebecca Poe Hays identifies a sharp turn at v. 5: vv. 1–4 portray the wicked, vv. 5–9 praise Yahweh’s character and actions, and vv. 10–12 become a petition and conclusion. Thus the praise stands in deliberate contrast to the preceding portrait of deceit and planned evil, not as an unframed statement.
Source: Hays, “Commentary on Psalm 36:5–10,” Working Preacher
The verses on either side
- For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
- The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
- He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
- Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
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