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They lie awake at night to hatch their evil plots instead of planning how to keep away from wrong.

Your steadfast love, O Lord, is as great as all the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your justice is as solid as God’s mountains. Your decisions are as full of wisdom as the oceans are with water. You are concerned[a] for men and animals alike.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 36:6 You are concerned, literally, “You preserve.”

Even on their beds they plot evil;(A)
    they commit themselves to a sinful course(B)
    and do not reject what is wrong.(C)

Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
    your faithfulness(D) to the skies.(E)
Your righteousness(F) is like the highest mountains,(G)
    your justice like the great deep.(H)
    You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.(I)

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