Psalms 36:1

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The Psalmist from his own knowledge here describes the sad state of a fallen nature. He extols the mercy of God. He prays for the continuance of God's loving kindness, and foretells the ruin of the ungodly.

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.

Psalms 36:1

I never read or saw a commentary upon this verse of scripture, but what referred this knowledge of the heart to anther's conduct, and not to the Psalmist's own. As if the transgression of my neighbour told me what the heart of another man saith, and not what passeth within. And it is strange that men should thus read the passage in terms the very reverse of what the passage saith. David saith that this transgression of the wicked speaks in his own heart. And how then should it be supposed to be another man's? I venture to read the passage literally as it is; and I venture to believe that in doing this the passage describes every truly regenerated Christian's experience. Reader! do you not think that in that body of sin and death we carry about with us, even the best and holiest of men (like Paul) feel the workings of sin and corruption within? And when this is the case doth it not show, by a believer's experience in what passeth in his own heart, how plainly the fear of God is banished from the ungodly and unregenerate?