Psalm 36:7-12

7 How priceless your faithful love is! Important and ordinary people alike find safety in the shadow of your wings.

8 They eat well because there is more than enough in your house. You let them drink from your river that flows with good things.

9 You have the fountain of life. We are filled with light because you give us light.

10 Keep on loving those who know you. Keep on doing right to those whose hearts are honest.

11 Don't let the feet of those who are proud step on me. Don't let the hands of those who are evil drive me away.

12 See how those who do evil have fallen! They are thrown down. They aren't able to get up.

Psalm 36:7-12 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, [a Psalm] of David, the servant of the Lord. This title, which the psalmist takes to himself, regards him not only as a creature, every man being the servant of the Lord as such, of right, though not in fact; but as a king, he being a minister of God for good to good men, and for evil to evil men; and also may respect him as a renewed man; and it is here used in opposition to and distinction from the wicked, who are the servants of sin and Satan, of whom he speaks in this psalm. The Syriac and Arabic versions in their titles suggest that this psalm was written when David was persecuted by Saul, and which is the sense of some interpreters; but R. Obadiah thinks Ahithophel is designed by the wicked man in it; and so it was penned on account of Absalom's rebellion.