Psalm 36

¹ The trespass of the wicked one

saith in assured wise:

within my heart, the fear of God

is not before his eyes.

² For in his eyes he sooths himself:

his sin is found mean while

³ hateful. The words of his mouth are

iniquity and guile:

he to be wise, to do good leaves.

⁴ He mischief plots on’s bed,

he sets himself in way not good:

he hath not ill hated.

⁵ Thy mercy, Lord, in heaven is,

to clouds thy faithfulness.

⁶ Thy judgments a great deep, like great

mountains thy righteousness:

thou savest man and beast, O Lord.

⁷ How precious is thy grace,

therefore in shadow of thy wings

men’s sons their trust do place.

⁸ They of the fatness of thy house

unto the full shall take:

and of the river of thy joys

to drink thou shalt them make.

⁹ For with thee is the spring of life:

in thy light we’ll see light.

¹⁰ To them that know thee stretch thy grace;

to right in heart thy right.

¹¹ Let no proud foot against me come,

nor wicked hand move me.

¹² Wrong doers there are fall’n cast down,

and rais’d they cannot be.