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Selected Verse: Psalms 36:10 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 36:10 |
King James |
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
that know thee--right knowledge of God is the source of right affections and conduct. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
O continue - Margin, as in Hebrew: "draw out at length." The Hebrew word means "to draw;" hence, "to draw out," in the sense of "continuing" or "prolonging." Compare Psa 85:5; Psa 109:12; Jer 31:3. The desire of the psalmist here is, that God would make the manifestation of his loving-kindness "continuous" or "perpetual" to His people; that it might not be fitful and interrupted, but always enduring, or constant. It is the utterance of a prayer that his favor might always be manifested to his friends.
Thy loving-kindness - Thy mercy, Psa 36:5, Psa 36:7. "Unto them that know thee." That are thy friends. The word "know" is often used to denote true religion: Joh 17:3; Phi 3:10; Eph 3:19; Ti2 1:12.
And thy righteousness - Thy favor; thy protection. That is, show to them the righteousness, or the glory of thy character. Deal with them according to those just principles which belong to thy character. Compare the notes at Jo1 1:9.
To the upright in heart - Those who are pure and holy in their intentions or their purposes. Compare Psa 7:10. All true uprightness has its seat in the heart, and the psalmist prays that God would show his continued favor to those whom he sees to be true in heart to himself. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
(Heb.: 36:11-13) Now for the first time, in the concluding hexastich, after complaint and commendation comes the language of prayer. The poet prays that God would lengthen out, i.e., henceforth preserve (משׁך, as in Psa 109:12), such mercy to His saints; that the foot of arrogance, which is conceived of as a tyrant, may not come suddenly upon him (בּוא, as in Psa 35:8), and that the hand of the wicked may not drive him from his home into exile (cf. Psa 10:18). With חסד alternates צדקה, which, on its merciful side, is turned towards them that now God, and bestows upon them the promised gracious reward. Whilst the Psalmist is thus praying, the future all at once becomes unveiled to him. Certain in his own mind that his prayer will be heard, he sees the adversaries of God and of His saints for ever overthrown. שׁם, as in Psa 14:5, points to the place where the judgment is executed. The preterites are prophetic, as in Psa 14:5; Psa 64:8-10. The poet, like Isaiah (Isa 26:14), beholds the whole tribe of the oppressors of Jahve's Church changed into a field of corpses, without hope of any rising again. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
O continue thy loving-kindness - Literally, "Draw out thy mercy." The allusion to the spring is still kept up.
Unto them that know thee - To them who acknowledge thee in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
And thy righteousness - That grace which justifies the ungodly, and sanctifies the unholy.
To the upriabt in heart - לישרי לב levishrey leb, to the straight of heart; to those who have but one end in view, and one aim to that end.
This is true of every genuine penitent, and of every true believer. |
10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.