“O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.”
The psalmist appeals to God to continue to show steadfast love to those who know God and to keep his righteousness for the upright in heart. The plea establishes that God's continued blessing is available for those who know and serve God. The verse expresses the psalmist's desire that divine grace would persist and that God would maintain fidelity toward the righteous. The psalm ends with a petition that God would continue the blessing already described.
Church Fathers on Psalms 36:10
1. ...“The ungodly has said in himself that he will sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes” Psalm 35:1. Not of one man, but of a race of ungodly men he speaks, who fight against their own selves, by not understanding, that so they may live well; not because they cannot, but because they will not. For it is one thing, when one endeavours to understand some thing, and through infirmity of flesh cannot; as says the Scripture in a certain place, “For the corruptible body…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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