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 shall we see light. 10 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart. 11 Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away. 12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 36:5-12
Commentary on Psalm 36:5-12
(Read Psalm 36:5-12)
Men may shut up their compassion, yet, with God we shall find mercy. This is great comfort to all believers, plainly to be seen, and not to be taken away. God does all wisely and well; but what he does we know not now, it is time enough to know hereafter. God's loving-kindness is precious to the saints. They put themselves under his protection, and then are safe and easy. Gracious souls, though still desiring more of God, never desire more than God. The gifts of Providence so far satisfy them, that they are content with such things as they have. The benefit of holy ordinances is sweet to a sanctified soul, and strengthening to the spiritual and Divine life. But full satisfaction is reserved for the future state. Their joys shall be constant. God not only works in them a gracious desire for these pleasures, but by his Spirit fills their souls with joy and peace in believing. He quickens whom he will; and whoever will, may come, and take from him of the waters of life freely. May we know, and love, and uprightly serve the Lord; then no proud enemy, on earth or from hell, shall separate us from his love. Faith calleth things that are not, as though they were. It carries us forward to the end of time; it shows us the Lord, on his throne of judgment; the empire of sin fallen to rise no more.