Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 36 Almost all interpreters agree in supposing, that in this psalm David in general expresses his wonder and amazement at the goodness of God, because, in the exercise of his favor and mercy, he bears with the wicked, who, notwithstanding, basely contemn him. The opinion which I have formed is somewhat different.
Commenting on Psalm 36:1-12
From the baseness of the wicked the psalmist turns his contemplation to the glory of God. Contrasts are impressive.
Commenting on Psalm 36:5
Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens. Like the ethereal blue, it encompasses the whole earth, smiling upon universal nature, acting as a canopy for all the creatures of earth, surmounting the loftiest peaks of human provocations, and rising high above the mists of mortal transgression. Clear sky is evermore above, and mercy calmly smiles above the din and smoke of this poor world.