Psalm 36

¹A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:

There is no fear of God before his eyes.

²For he flatters himself in his own eyes,

too much to detect and hate his sin.

³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.

He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

⁴He plots iniquity on his bed.

He sets himself in a way that is not good.

He doesn’t abhor evil.

⁵Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.

Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

⁶Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.

Your judgments are like a great deep.

Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

⁷How precious is your loving kindness, God!

The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

⁸They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.

You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

⁹For with you is the spring of life.

In your light we will see light.

¹⁰Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,

your righteousness to the upright in heart.

¹¹Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.

Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹²There the workers of iniquity are fallen.

They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.