Psalms 36

1 TO THE OVERSEER. BY A SERVANT OF YHWH, BY DAVID. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, “Fear of God is not before his eyes,

Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes.

2 For he made [it] smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently—to do good.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

4 He devises iniquity on his bed, He stations himself on a way not good, He does not refuse evil.”

He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

5 O YHWH, Your kindness [is] in the heavens, Your faithfulness [is] to the clouds.

O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth, even to the clouds.

6 Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.

Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

7 How precious [is] Your kindness, O God, And the sons of men trust In the shadow of Your wings.

O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.

8 They are filled from the fatness of Your house, And You cause them to drink the stream of Your delights.

They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

9 For a fountain of life [is] with You, In Your light we see light.

For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

10 Draw out Your kindness to those knowing You, And Your righteousness to the upright of heart.

Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

11 Do not let a foot of pride meet me, And do not let a hand of the wicked move me.

Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

12 Workers of iniquity have fallen there, They have been overthrown, And have not been able to arise!

There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.