Psalms 37:33

Easy-to-Read Version

But the Lord will not let the wicked defeat them. He will not let good people be judged guilty.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the Lord will not leave himin the power of the wicked oneor allow him to be condemned when he is judged.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

King James Version
The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

English Standard Version
The Lord will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

New Century Version
But the Lord will not take away his protection or let good people be judged guilty.

New English Translation
But the Lord does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.

Amplified Bible
The LORD will not leave him in his hand Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD will not leave him in his hand Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

World English Bible
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the Lord wil not leaue him in his hand, nor condemne him, when he is iudged.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh will not forsake him in his hand;He will not condemn him when he is judged.

Berean Standard Bible
the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

Contemporary English Version
but the Lord is on their side, and he will defend them when they are on trial.

Complete Jewish Bible
But Adonai will not leave him in his power or let him be condemned when judged.

Darby Translation
Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Good News Translation
but the Lord will not abandon them to their enemy's power or let them be condemned when they are on trial.

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.

Literal Translation
Jehovah does not leave him in his hand; nor does He allow him to be found guilty in his judgment.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The vngodly seyth the rightuous, & goeth aboute to slaye him.

American Standard Version
Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor suffer him to be condemned when he is judged.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord will not leaue him in his hand, nor condemne him when he is iudged.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God wyll not leaue him in his hande: nor suffer hym to be condemned when he is iudged.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

English Revised Version
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But the Lord schal not forsake hym in hise hondis; nethir schal dampne hym, whanne it schal be demed ayens hym.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

New King James Version
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

New Living Translation
But the Lord will not let the wicked succeed or let the godly be condemned when they are put on trial.

New Life Bible
The Lord will not leave him in his power. He will not let him be found guilty when he is judged.

New Revised Standard
The Lord will not abandon them to their power, or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him, when he is judged.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-33) But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.

Revised Standard Version
The LORD will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord will not leave him in his hand Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

Contextual Overview

²¹ The wicked borrow money and never pay it back. But good people are kind and generous. ²² Everyone the Lord blesses will get the land he promised. Everyone he curses will be destroyed. ²³ The Lord shows us how we should live, and he is pleased when he sees people living that way. ²⁴ If they stumble, they will not fall, because the Lord reaches out to steady them. ²⁵ I was young, and now I am old, but I have never seen good people left with no one to help them; I have never seen their children begging for food. ²⁶ They are kind and generous, and their children are a blessing. ²⁷ Stop doing anything evil and do good, and you will always have a place to live. ²⁸ The Lord loves what is right, and he will never leave his followers without help. He will always protect them, but he will destroy the families of the wicked. ²⁹ Good people will get the land God promised and will live on it forever. ³⁰ Those who do what is right give good advice. Their decisions are always fair.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will not: Psalms 31:7, Psalms 31:8, Psalms 124:6, Psalms 124:7, 1 Samuel 23:26-28, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Peter 2:9

condemn: Psalms 109:31, Romans 8:1, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:34

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:11 - And David 1 Samuel 23:14 - but God 2 Kings 6:13 - spy where 2 Chronicles 12:5 - left you Psalms 17:2 - Let my Psalms 41:2 - thou wilt not Psalms 59:3 - they Psalms 71:10 - lay wait for Psalms 116:15 - Precious Psalms 119:121 - leave me Psalms 140:4 - Keep me Jeremiah 11:19 - and I Jeremiah 18:23 - thou Daniel 6:4 - sought Daniel 6:11 - assembled Habakkuk 1:13 - the wicked Luke 4:29 - that Luke 6:7 - watched Luke 11:54 - seeking Luke 20:20 - they watched Acts 5:33 - took Acts 9:24 - And they Acts 12:7 - the angel Acts 12:19 - sought for him Acts 23:15 - that he Acts 25:3 - laying Acts 26:17 - Delivering 2 Corinthians 4:8 - not in despair

Cross-References

Genesis 37:20
We should kill him now while we can. We could throw his body into one of the empty wells and tell our father that a wild animal killed him. Then we will show him that his dreams are useless."

Genesis 44:28
I let one son go away, and he was killed by a wild animal. And I haven't seen him since.

1 Kings 13:24
On the way home, a lion attacked and killed the man of God. His body was lying on the road while the lion stood next to it. The donkey stood nearby.

2 Kings 2:24
Elisha looked back and saw them. He asked the Lord to cause bad things to happen to them. Then two bears came out of the forest and attacked the boys. There were 42 boys ripped apart by the bears.

Proverbs 14:15
Fools believe every word they hear, but wise people think carefully about everything.

John 13:7
Jesus answered, "You don't know what I am doing now. But later you will understand."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord will not leave him in his hand,.... Or power; but will in his own time deliver him from all the reproach, affliction, and persecution endures by him; as he will also deliver him out of all the temptations of Satan;

nor condemn him when he is judged; by the wicked man: he will not join in the sentence, but reverse it, and condemn the tongue that rises up in judgment against him, and save him from him; see Psalms 109:31; nor will the Lord condemn him when he is judged by him at the hast judgment; but will acquit him before men and angels, and introduce him into his kingdom and glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord will not leave him in his hand - Compare 2 Peter 2:9. That is, He will rescue him out of the hand of the wicked; he will not leave him, so that the wicked shall accomplish his purpose. The psalmist here undoubtedly means to refer mainly to what will occur in the present life - to the fact that God will interpose to deliver the righteous from the evil designs of the wicked, as he interposes to save his people from famine and want. The meaning is not that this will universally occur, for that would not be true; but that this is the general course of things; this is the tendency and bearing of the divine interpositions and the divine arrangements. Those interpositions and arrangements are, on the whole, favorable to virtue, and favorable to those who love and serve God; so much so that it is an advantage even in the present life to serve God. But this will be absolutely and universally true in the future world. The righteous will be wholly and forever placed beyond the reach of the wicked.

Nor condemn him when he is judged - literally, He will not regard or hold him to be guilty when he is judged. He will regard and treat him as a righteous man. This may refer either

(a) to a case where a judgment is pronounced on a good man “by his fellow-men,” by which he is condemned or adjudged to be guilty - meaning that God will not so regard and treat him; or

(b) to the final judgment, when the cause comes “before God” - meaning that then he will regard and treat him as righteous.

Both of these are true; but it seems probable that the former is particularly referred to here. DeWette understands it in the latter sense; Rosenmuller in the former. Rosenmuller remarks that the idea is, that the wicked, when he is not permitted to assail the righteous by violence, makes his appeal to the courts, and seeks to secure his condemnation there, but that God will not permit this. As he has saved him from violence, so he will interpose and save him from an unrighteous condemnation in the courts. This seems to me to be the true idea. Of course, this is to be understood only in a “general” sense, or as marking the “general” course of things under the divine administration. On this subject, compare Dr. Taylor’s Lectures on Moral Government; vol. i., pp. 252-262. See also Butler’s Analogy, passim.