UST PSA Chapter 36

36 Note for the worship leader: a who served this psalm.

1 Wicked people act as though they are obeying a voice from deep within themselves that is urging them to sin.

They have no respect for God at all.

2 Indeed, they are so proud that they refuse

to recognize how wrongly they act

so that they might hate doing those things.

3 Everything that they say is wicked and deceptive;

they have stopped acting wisely and stopped doing what is right.

4 They plan sinful activities while lying on their beds;

they commit themselves to a bad way of living;

they do not refuse to do evil things.

5 Yahweh, the amount that you faithfully love us is so much that it is as though it fills the heavens.

If we could measure how trustworthy you are, the amount would extend into the clouds.

6 Your way of doing what is right is as permanent as the highest mountains;

your way of acting justly is as vast and mysterious as the deepest oceans.

Yahweh, you take care of all living creatures, both people and animals.

7 God, how precious it is that you faithfully love us!

You protect people just as a bird shelters its young under its wings.

8 You provide for them plenty of food from the abundant supply that you have;

you satisfy them with good things that they enjoy, as if from a never-ending stream.

9 Indeed, you are the one who causes everything to live;

you are the one who makes it possible for us to understand what is true.

10 Please continue to faithfully love those who know you,

and continue to do right for those who sincerely want to do what is right.

11 Do not let arrogant people overcome me,

and do not let wicked people force me to flee.

12 See how the people who do evil have fallen!

God has thrown them down, and they can never get up again.