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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 37:26

All the day he is gracious and lending, || And his seed [is] for a blessing.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Character;   Children;   Lending;   Mercy;   Poor;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Credit System;   Lending;   Social Duties;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Character of Saints;   Mercy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Contribution;   Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Debt;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Estate;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Justice;   Lend;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He is always generous, always lending,and his children are a blessing.
Hebrew Names Version
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
King James Version
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
English Standard Version
He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
New Century Version
Good people always lend freely to others, and their children are a blessing.
New English Translation
All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, and his children are blessed.
Amplified Bible
All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing.
New American Standard Bible
All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing.
World English Bible
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But hee is euer mercifull and lendeth, and his seede enioyeth the blessing.
Legacy Standard Bible
All day long he is gracious and lends,And his seed is a blessing.
Berean Standard Bible
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Contemporary English Version
They gladly give and lend, and their children turn out good.
Complete Jewish Bible
All day long he is generous and lends, and his descendants are blessed.
Darby Translation
all the day he is gracious and lendeth, and his seed shall be a blessing.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are kind and generous, and their children are a blessing.
George Lamsa Translation
But he is ever merciful and lends; and his offspring is blessed.
Good News Translation
At all times they give freely and lend to others, and their children are a blessing.
Lexham English Bible
All the day he is gracious and lends, and his children are a blessing.
Literal Translation
All the day he is gracious and lends; and his seed is for a blessing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The rightuous is euer mercifull, & ledeth getly, therfore shal his sede be blessed.
American Standard Version
All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth; And his seed is blessed.
Bible in Basic English
All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
King James Version (1611)
He is euer mercifull, and lendeth: and his seede is blessed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The righteous is euer mercifull and lendeth: and his seede is blessed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.
English Revised Version
All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Al dai he hath merci, and leeneth; and his seed schal be in blessyng.
Update Bible Version
All the day long he deals graciously, and lends; And his seed is blessed.
Webster's Bible Translation
[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.
New King James Version
He is ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed.
New Living Translation
The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing.
New Life Bible
All day long he is kind and lets others use what he has. And his children make him happy.
New Revised Standard
They are ever giving liberally and lending, and their children become a blessing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All day long, is he showing favour and lending, his seed, therefore, shall have a blessing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-26) He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed shall be in blessing.
Revised Standard Version
He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.
Young's Literal Translation
All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed [is] for a blessing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing.

Contextual Overview

21The wicked is borrowing and does not repay, || And the righteous is gracious and giving. 22For His blessed ones possess the land, || And His reviled ones are cut off. 23The steps of a man [are] from YHWH, || They have been prepared, || And He desires his way. 24When he falls, he is not cast down, || For YHWH is sustaining his hand. 25I have been young, || I have also become old, || And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, || And his seed seeking bread. 26All the day he is gracious and lending, || And his seed [is] for a blessing.27Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell for all time. 28For YHWH is loving judgment, || And He does not forsake His saintly ones, || They have been kept for all time, || And the seed of the wicked is cut off. 29The righteous possess the land, || And they dwell on it forever. 30The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, || And his tongue speaks judgment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ever: Heb. all the day

merciful: Psalms 37:21, Psalms 112:5, Psalms 112:9, Deuteronomy 15:8-10, Matthew 5:7, Luke 6:35-38

his seed: Proverbs 20:7, Jeremiah 32:39

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:35 - then Deuteronomy 15:6 - thou shalt lend Nehemiah 5:18 - because the bondage Psalms 25:13 - his seed Psalms 41:1 - Lord Psalms 112:2 - General Proverbs 11:21 - the seed Proverbs 19:1 - Better Proverbs 21:26 - the righteous Proverbs 28:10 - but Micah 6:8 - love Matthew 5:42 - General 2 Timothy 1:16 - Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And He says, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground;
Genesis 25:32
And Esau says, "Behold, I am going to die, and what is this to me—a birthright?"
Genesis 37:20
and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast has devoured him; and we see what his dreams are."
Deuteronomy 17:8
When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
2 Samuel 1:16
and David says to him, "Your blood [is] on your own head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I put to death the anointed of YHWH."
Job 16:18
O earth, do not cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Psalms 30:9
"What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?
Jeremiah 41:8
And ten men have been found among them, and they say to Ishmael, "Do not put us to death, for we have things hidden in the field—wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey." And he refrains, and has not put them to death in the midst of their brothers.
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood has been in her midst, || She has set it on a clear place of a rock, || She has not poured it on the earth, || To cover it over with dust.
Matthew 16:26
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth,.... He sympathizes with the poor in distress, and shows mercy to miserable objects; not only by words, but deeds: and this is his constant disposition and conduct; of which his lending, as well as giving to persons in necessity, is an instance; and which shows capacity, and is a proof of the observation of the psalmist, that such are never forsaken, nor left to beg their bread: so far from it, that they have to lend and give to others;

and his seed [is] blessed; either his seed sown, his alms deeds, which are blessed to him and his, and to them to whom he ministers, as Jarchi explains it; see 2 Corinthians 9:6; or rather his offspring, who are blessed of God with things temporal for his sake; and are blessed by men, who say of them, these are the posterity of such and such liberal persons.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is ever merciful - Margin, as in Hebrew, “all the day.” That is, it is his character; he is constantly in the habit of showing kindness. He does not do it at intervals, or only occasionally, but it is this that marks the character of the man. He is known by this. The word “merciful” here means kind, compassionate, benignant - and particularly in this respect, that he is willing to “lend” to others when he has the means.

And lendeth - The wicked man “borrows,” but does not pay again Psalms 37:21; the righteous man “lends” to his neighbor.

And his seed is blessed - His children; his posterity, as the result of this conduct on his part. The effect of what he does passes over from him to them, conveying rich blessings to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:26. He is ever merciful and lendeth — כל היום חונן kol haiyom chonen, "all the day he is compassionate." He is confirmed in the habit of godliness: he feels for the distresses of men, and is ready to divide and distribute to all that are in necessity.

And his seed is blessed. — The preceding words were not spoken casually; his seed, his posterity, is blessed; therefore they are not abandoned to beg their bread.


 
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