Psalm 36:7-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 36:5-12

David, having looked round with grief upon the wickedness of the wicked, here looks up with comfort upon the goodness of God, a subject as delightful as the former was distasteful and very proper to be set in the balance against it. Observe, I. His meditations upon the grace of God. He sees the world polluted, himself endangered, and God dishonoured, by the transgressions of the wicked; but, of a sudden, he turns his eye, and heart, and speech, to God ?However it be, yet thou art good.? He... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:7

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God ,.... Which has appeared to men and not angels, to some and not others; to the chief of sinners, who are by nature children of wrath as others; in choosing, redeeming, and calling them, taking them into his family, and making them heirs of eternal glory; and all this of his sovereign good will and pleasure, there being nothing in them that could move him to it; which lovingkindness was in his heart from everlasting, and will never change in him,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:8

They shall be abundantly sallied with the fatness of thy house ,.... By his "house" is meant the church of God, of his building, and where he dwells; by the fatness of it the provisions there, the word and ordinances, and the blessings of grace which they hold forth; and especially Christ, the fatted calf, the bread of life, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed, and which make a feast of fat things; and these they that trust in the Lord are welcome to eat and drink of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:9

For with thee is the fountain of life ,.... Or "lives" F6 מקור חיים "vena vitarum", Montanus. : God himself is the fountain of living waters; this is a reason proving the happiness of those that trust in the Lord, and that they shall enjoy the above things; because with God the object of their trust is the fountain of life; not only of natural life, from whom they have it, and by whom it is supported, but of spiritual life, being quickened by him when dead in sin, by virtue of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 36:10

O continue thy lovingkindness to them that know thee ,.... That is, spiritually and experimentally; and such are they that trust in him and love him: and these are the objects of the love of God; not that their knowledge, faith, or love, are the cause of his love to them; but these things describe and point at manifestly the objects of it; and this request regards the open discovery of it unto them: for the love of God itself always continues, though the manifestations of it are not always... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:7

How excellent is thy loving-kindness - He asks the question in the way of admiration; but expects no answer from angels or men. It is indescribably excellent, abundant, and free; and, "therefore, the children of Adam put their trust under the shadow of thy wings." They trust in thy good providence for the supply of their bodies; they trust in thy mercy for the salvation of their souls. These, speaking after the figure, are the two wings of the Divine goodness, under which the children of men... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:8

They shall be abundantly satisfied - ירוין yirveyun , they shall be saturated, as a thirsty field is by showers from heaven. Inebriaduntur, they shall be inebriated - Vulgate. That sal be drunken of the plenteuoste of thi house. - Old Psalter. This refers to the joyous expectation they had of being restored to their own land, and to the ordinances of the temple. Of the river of thy pleasures - אדניך נחל nachal adaneycha , (or עדנך edencha , as in four MSS)., the river of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:9

For with thee is the fountain of life - This, in Scripture phrase, may signify a spring of water; for such was called among the Jews living water, to distinguish it from ponds, tanks, and reservoirs, that were supplied by water either received from the clouds, or conducted into them by pipes and streams from other quarters. But there seems to be a higher allusion in the sacred text. חיים מקור עמך כי ki immecha mekor chaiyim , "For with thee is the vein of lives." Does not this allude to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:10

O continue thy loving-kindness - Literally, "Draw out thy mercy." The allusion to the spring is still kept up. Unto them that know thee - To them who acknowledge thee in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. And thy righteousness - That grace which justifies the ungodly, and sanctifies the unholy. To the upriabt in heart - לב לישרי levishrey leb , to the straight of heart; to those who have but one end in view, and one aim to that end. This is true of every... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 36:7

Verse 7 7O God! how precious is thy loving-kindness! Some explain these words in this sense: That the mercy of God is precious, and that the children of men who put their trust in it are precious; but this is a sense too far removed from the words of the text. Others understand them as meaning, that the mercy of God is very great to the gods, that is to say, to the angels and the sons of men; but this is too refined. I am also surprised that the Jewish Rabbins have wearied and bewildered... read more

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