How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
To the choirmaster. Of David, the See Ps. 18, titleservant of the Lord.
1 Transgression speaks to the wicked
deep in his heart;36:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart
Cited Rom. 3:18there is no fear of God
before his eyes.
2 Deut. 29:19;[Ps. 10:3;49:18]For he flatters himself in his own eyes
that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
3 The words of his mouth are [Ps. 12:2] trouble and deceit;
[Jer. 4:22]he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
4 He Mic. 2:1;[Prov. 4:16] plots Ps. 10:7trouble while on his bed;
he sets himself in Isa. 65:2a way that is not good;
[Ps. 97:10]he does not reject evil.
5 Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 [Ps. 71:19] Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Ps. 92:5;Rom. 11:33your judgments are like the great deep;
man and beast you Ps. 104:14,15;145:9,15,16;Neh. 9:6save, O Lord.
7 [Ps. 31:19] How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge See Ruth 2:12in the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast on Ps. 23:5;27:4;65:4;Isa. 25:6;See Jer. 31:12-14the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from Ps. 46:4;Rev. 22:1the river of Ps. 16:11your delights.
9 For with you is Jer. 2:13;John 4:10,14;5:26the fountain of life;
John 1:9;Acts 26:18;1 Pet. 2:9in your light do we see light.
10 Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who Jer. 22:16;Gal. 4:9;[Ps. 79:6] know you,
and your righteousness to See Ps. 7:10the upright of heart!
11 Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 There Ps. 94:4the evildoers lie fallen;
they are thrust down, See Ps. 1:5unable to rise.