Psalm 36:4

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 36:1-12

The Mystery of Suffering (for Holy Week) Psalms 36:6 I have thought that it may lead up to that climax of all endurance which we shall soon be called upon to measure if, on the days of this Holy Week, we consider 'Suffering' under five aspects: 'The Mystery of Suffering,' 'The Consecration of Suffering,' 'The Uses of Suffering,' 'The Joy of Suffering,' and 'The Dignity of Suffering'. I. Mystery is: ( a ) A necessity. So long as the finite has to do with the Infinite, there must be mystery.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:1-12

Psalms 36:1-12THE supposition that the sombre picture of "the wicked" in Psalms 36:1-4 was originally unconnected with the glorious hymn in Psalms 36:5-9 fails to give weight to the difference between the sober pace of pedestrian prose and the swift flight of winged poetry. It fails also in apprehending the instinctive turning of a devout meditative spectator from the darkness of earth and its sins to the light above. The one refuge from the sad vision of evil here is in the faith that God is... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 36:1-12

Psalms 36:0 Contrasts 1. What the wicked is and does (Psalms 36:1-4 ) 2. What Jehovah is and does (Psalms 36:5-9 ) 3. Prayer and trust in His loving kindness (Psalms 36:10-12 ) The wicked are described in their wickedness, with sin in the heart, no fear of God; filled with pride and flattery, speaking evil and doing evil. “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13 ). This is the divine forecast for the last days and these opening... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 36:4

36:4 He {d} deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.(d) By describing at large the nature of the reprobate, he admonishes the godly to beware of these vices. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:1-12

Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 36:2-4

These are the outlines, and but the outlines of a heart, whose imagination is only evil, and that continually. Genesis 6:5 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:4

Heart. Provided they be rational. (St. Augustine) --- He will enable thee to repose in peace, and to taste innocent pleasures in the Lord. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:1-4

1-4 From this psalm our hearts should be duly affected with hatred of sin, and seek satisfaction in God's loving-kindness. Here is the root of bitterness, from which all the wickedness of wicked men comes. It takes rise from contempt of God, and the want of due regard to him. Also from the deceit they put upon their own souls. Let us daily beg of God to preserve us from self-flattery. Sin is very hurtful to the sinner himself, and therefore ought to be hateful; but it is not so. It is no... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 36:1-12

The Curse of Estrangement from God and the Blessing of Fellowship with Him. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical services of the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who here pictures to all other servants of Jehovah the darkness in which the ungodly dwell, and then the light in which the believers have their being. v. 1. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, rather, "A prompting of wickedness to the evil within the confines of his heart," that... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 36:1-12

Psalms 36:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,That there is no fear of God before his eyes.2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes.Until his iniquity be found to be hateful.3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit:He hath left off to be wise, and to do good.4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed;He setteth himself in a way that is not good;He abhorreth not evil.5 Thy mercy, O... read more

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