Psalm 36
Psalm 36 • 1 min. read • grade level: 8
This is a very interesting Psalm, but there is not much to comment on in it. It is explained in the expression of L'evedh-Jehovah (to the servant of Jehovah). It is Christ in that character, as proposing to meet the wickedness of ungodly men, as to whom He felt that there was no restraint upon them, because the fear of God was not before their eyes, and His conferring with Jehovah, so to speak, as to this case. Unrestrained will is their character here, which is the greatest trial a man can be subject to, as the Lord says: "They have done unto him whatsoever they listed"—"Likewise also must the Son of Man suffer " etc.; nor would He have suffered fully without this. The security of God's people, in such case then, is not in the restraint of the will of the enemies, but on our dependence on the divine care under their unrestrained will. This is a most important principle; verse 1 is the thesis of this. The description is perfect and complete to our faith. In the meanwhile we are servants of the Lord (av'dey-Jehovah) (compare John 11:77Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again. (John 11:7), etc.), and so to act, and therein the Lord's will is exercised continually, compare Psa. 91; verse 9 is our joy meanwhile, verse 12 is deliverance. Note this Psalm.