In these is continuance,Isaiah 64:5. by R. Laird Harris, Gleason Archer, and Bruce Waltke [Moody Press], 2:752). Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are. ASV Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast. Psalm 36-2 For he flattens himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found abhorrent. David begins the psalm in a rather unusual way, giving a succinct but profound analysis of the sinfulness of sin (36:1-4). thy judgments are a great deep; both in a way of providence, many of them being at present not to be traced, though before long they will be made manifest; and in a way of grace, such as the choice of some, and the leaving of others, the rejection of the Jews, and the call of the Gentiles; see Romans 11:33; O Lord, thou preservest man and beast; in a providential way, upholding each in their being, and supplying them with the necessaries of life: some understand this figuratively, of God's saving Jews and Gentiles, wise and unwise, and particularly those who, through humility and modesty, as Jarchi says, compare themselves to beasts, because of their ignorance and stupidity, Proverbs 30:2. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Charles Simeon has no less than seven sermons on different verses in this psalm, so there is much here that I cannot cover in depth. The more inwardly, therefore, one is joined to Him, the fuller are the draughts of life which he drinks from this first fountain of all life. (Psalm 36:9) Can you think of other ways? When men and women keep Gods commandments, they act righteously. 15:29 - Let's Just Be Real 17:28 - He Heard Me! Psalm 36-3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and fraud; he has ceased to be sensible and to do good. Those that have experienced the pleasure of communion with God cannot but desire that nothing may ever remove them from him. We trust the promise of God that Hes revealed through Jesus Christ, and thus we become righteous. And who can comprehend the extent of His law, and the wonderfulness of His Providence, in thus watching over and providing for the multitudes of animated beings that swarm in the waters, in the air, and on the earth? David delighted in meditating on Gods attributes rather than disregarding Him. How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! [Note: Armerding, p. He carried them on His pinions. The manner in which he desires this blessing may be conveyed: O continue it, draw it out, as the mother draws out her breasts to the child, and then the child draws out the milk from the breasts. If the first reading is correct, the NIV translation makes good sense, An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. David would be reporting an oracle or word from God about the wicked, that their sin is rooted in the fact that they have no fear of God. Let not the foot of pride come upon me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. A great deep.The reference, as usual, with the words deep, depth, is to the great abyss of waters, of which the seas were regarded as the surface. Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
