Psalms

Psalms 36:5–9

The Lord's love and faithfulness are infinite as the heavens, providing a fountain of life and a radiant light in which we find our refuge and our joy.

Psalms 36:5–9 (WEB)

5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

Central Idea

The Lord's love and faithfulness are infinite as the heavens, providing a fountain of life and a radiant light in which we find our refuge and our joy.

Authorial Intent

To contrast the darkness of human depravity with the infinite, life-giving, and luminous attributes of God's character and presence.

Chapter: Psalm 36

The Wicked Heart and the Fountain of Life in the LORD's Steadfast Love

The wicked path begins where the fear of God is absent, but those who know the LORD find refuge, satisfaction, life, light, and final security in His steadfast love.