Psalm 36:9 - The Transgression of the Wicked
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The Transgression of the Wicked
…8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. 9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. 10Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.…
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Psalm 19:8
The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.Psalm 34:5
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.Psalm 43:3
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.Psalm 87:7
Singers and pipers will proclaim, "All my springs of joy are in You."Jeremiah 2:13
"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns--broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Daniel 2:22
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
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For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
For
Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
John 4:10,14
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water…
in thy
Psalm 27:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
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Psalm 36
1. The grievous state of the wicked
8. The excellence of God's mercy
10. David prays for favor to God's children
(9) In thy light.--Better, by thy light. This wonderful verse inspired Milton's sublime invocation:
"The author of all being,
Fountain of light, thyself invisible
Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sitt'st."
It contains the germ of that moral and spiritual teaching which had its highest development in the Epistles of St. John. But the original intention of the words seems to be that the favour and bounty of God commend themselves as divine in origin, especially to those in the covenant relation.
Verse 9. - For with thee is the fountain of life. The ultimate source of all life is God. Israel had been taught by Moses (Deuteronomy 30:20) that God was their Life; but this was not all; he is equally the Origin of life to everything that lives - to angels, men, beasts, birds, fishes, zoophytes, plants (see Genesis 1:11, 20, 24, 27, etc.). And, as he is the sole Source of natural life, so is he also the one and only Origin of spiritual vitality (Psalm 30:5; Psalm 66:9; John 1:4; John 6:57; John 7:37-39, etc.). And in thy light shall we see light (comp. John 1:4, 5, 9; 1 John 1:5-7). God is essentially Life and Light. He "has life in himself" (John 5:26). He "is Light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). The Son, who is "the Light of the world" (John 8:12), is but "the Effulgence of his Father's glory" (Hebrews 1:3, Revised Version), "Light of light," the ray which streams from the Sun of the universe. Yet from him comes the light which enlighteneth all creatures (John 1:9). "In his light we see light." Parallel Commentaries ...
Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction
with You
עִ֭מְּךָ (‘im·mə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with
is the fountain
מְק֣וֹר (mə·qō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4726: Something dug, a, source, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
of life;
חַיִּ֑ים (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life
in Your light
בְּ֝אוֹרְךָ֗ (bə·’ō·wr·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary
we see
נִרְאֶה־ (nir·’eh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see
light.
אֽוֹר׃ (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary
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