Psalms 36:19-40

19 non confundentur in tempore malo et in diebus famis saturabuntur

20 quia peccatores peribunt inimici vero Domini mox honorificati fuerint et exaltati deficientes quemadmodum fumus defecerunt

21 mutuabitur peccator et non solvet iustus autem miseretur et tribuet

22 quia benedicentes ei hereditabunt terram maledicentes autem ei disperibunt

23 apud Dominum gressus hominis dirigentur et viam eius volet

24 cum ceciderit non conlidetur quia Dominus subponit manum suam

25 iunior fui et senui et non vidi iustum derelictum nec semen eius quaerens panes

26 tota die miseretur et commodat et semen illius in benedictione erit

27 declina a malo et fac bonum et inhabita in saeculum saeculi

28 quia Dominus amat iudicium et non derelinquet sanctos suos in aeternum conservabuntur iniusti punientur et semen impiorum peribit

29 iusti autem hereditabunt terram et inhabitabunt in saeculum %saeculi; super eam

30 os iusti meditabitur sapientiam et lingua eius loquetur iudicium

31 lex Dei eius in corde ipsius et non subplantabuntur gressus eius

32 considerat peccator iustum et quaerit mortificare eum

33 Dominus autem non derelinquet eum in manus eius nec damnabit eum cum iudicabitur illi

34 expecta Dominum et custodi viam eius et exaltabit te ut hereditate capias terram cum perierint peccatores videbis

35 vidi impium superexaltatum et elevatum sicut cedros Libani

36 et transivi et ecce non erat et quaesivi eum et non est inventus locus eius

37 custodi innocentiam et vide aequitatem quoniam sunt reliquiae homini pacifico

38 iniusti autem disperibunt simul reliquiae impiorum peribunt

39 salus autem iustorum a Domino et protector eorum in tempore tribulationis

40 et adiuvabit eos Dominus et liberabit eos et eruet eos a peccatoribus et salvabit eos quia speraverunt in eo

Psalms 36:19-40 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.