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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 37:9

For evildoers are cut off, || As for those waiting on YHWH, they possess the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Desire;   Patience;   Righteous;   Waiting;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Doers, Evil;   Evil;   Evildoers;   Names;   Titles and Names;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Inheritance;   Waiting;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Resignation;   Waiting upon God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Perseverance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Patience;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Estate;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Meekness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Poetry, Hebrew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Patience;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 6;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For evildoers will be destroyed,but those who put their hope in the Lordwill inherit the land.
Hebrew Names Version
For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
King James Version
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord , they shall inherit the earth.
English Standard Version
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
New Century Version
Evil people will be sent away, but those who trust the Lord will inherit the land.
New English Translation
Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.
Amplified Bible
For those who do evil will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.
New American Standard Bible
For evildoers will be eliminated, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.
World English Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For euill doers shalbe cut off, and they that wait vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
For evildoers will be cut off,But those who hope for Yahweh, they will inherit the land.
Berean Standard Bible
For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
Contemporary English Version
All sinners will disappear, but if you trust the Lord , the land will be yours.
Complete Jewish Bible
For evildoers will be cut off, but those hoping in Adonai will inherit the land.
Darby Translation
For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.
Easy-to-Read Version
The wicked will be destroyed, but those who call to the Lord for help will get the land he promised.
George Lamsa Translation
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those who trust in the LORD shall inherit the earth.
Good News Translation
Those who trust in the Lord will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out.
Lexham English Bible
For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh— they will possess the land.
Literal Translation
For evildoers shall be cut off; and the ones waiting on Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For wicked doers shal be roted out, but they that pacietly abyde the LORDE, shal enheret the londe.
American Standard Version
For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.
Bible in Basic English
For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait for the LORD, they shall inherit the land.
King James Version (1611)
For euil doers shall be cut off: but those that waite vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the earth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the malitious doers shalbe rooted out: and they that paciently wayte after God, they shall inherite the lande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
English Revised Version
For evil-doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei, that doen wickidli, schulen be distried; but thei that suffren the Lord, schulen enerite the lond.
Update Bible Version
For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Yahweh, they shall inherit the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
New King James Version
For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the LORD, They shall inherit the earth.
New Living Translation
For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the Lord will possess the land.
New Life Bible
For those who do wrong will be cut off. But those who wait for the Lord will be given the earth.
New Revised Standard
For the wicked shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, evil doers, shall be cut off, but, as for them who wait for Yahweh, they, shall inherit the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-9) For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
Revised Standard Version
For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.
Young's Literal Translation
For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the Lord , they will inherit the land.

Contextual Overview

7Be silent for YHWH, and stay yourself for Him, || Do not fret because of him || Who is making his way prosperous, || Because of a man doing wicked schemes. 8Desist from anger, and forsake fury, || Do not fret yourself to only do evil. 9For evildoers are cut off, || As for those waiting on YHWH, they possess the land.10And yet a little [while], and the wicked is not, || And you have considered his place, and it is not. 11And the humble possess the land, || And they have delighted themselves || In the abundance of peace. 12The wicked is devising against the righteous, || And gnashing his teeth against him. 13The Lord laughs at him, || For He has seen that his day comes. 14The wicked have opened a sword, || And they have bent their bow, || To cause the poor and needy to fall, || To slaughter the upright of the way. 15Their sword enters into their own heart, || And their bows are shattered. 16Better [is] the little of the righteous, || Than the store of many wicked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

evildoers: Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 55:23, Job 20:23-29, Job 27:13, Job 27:14-23

inherit: Psalms 37:11, Psalms 37:12, Psalms 37:29, Psalms 25:13, Isaiah 58:14, Isaiah 60:21, Hebrews 11:16, Revelation 5:10

the earth: Or, "the land," airetz, probably the land of Judea, given by God himself as an inheritance to their fathers, and their posterity forever, and this verse seems to contain a promise of their return thither.

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:4 - fail 2 Kings 6:33 - wait for the Psalms 37:22 - cut off Psalms 37:34 - Wait Proverbs 2:21 - General Proverbs 10:25 - the whirlwind Proverbs 10:30 - the wicked Isaiah 57:13 - but he Matthew 5:5 - they Luke 12:46 - cut him in sunder

Cross-References

Genesis 37:7
that, behold, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and behold, my bundle has arisen, and has also stood up, and behold, your bundles are all around, and they bow themselves to my bundle."
Genesis 37:9
And he dreams yet another dream, and recounts it to his brothers, and says, "Behold, I have dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me."
Genesis 37:10
And he recounts to his father, and to his brothers; and his father pushes against him, and says to him, "What [is] this dream which you have dreamed? Do we certainly come, I, and your mother, and your brothers—to bow ourselves to you, to the earth?"
Genesis 37:14
and he says to him, "Now go see the peace of your brothers, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word"; and he sends him from the Valley of Hebron, and he comes to Shechem.
Genesis 37:15
And a man finds him, and behold, he is wandering in the field, and the man asks him, saying, "What do you seek?"
Genesis 37:21
And Reuben hears, and delivers him out of their hand, and says, "Let us not strike the life";
Genesis 41:25
And Joseph says to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he has declared to Pharaoh;
Genesis 41:32
And because of the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hurrying to do it.
Genesis 43:28
And they say, "Your servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive"; and they bow, and pay respect.
Genesis 44:14
And Judah and his brothers come to the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall to the earth before him;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For evildoers shall be cut off,.... Though they flourish for a while, they shall be cut down like the grass or flower of the field, or they shall be cut off as branches from a flourishing tree; they shall be cut off from the earth, and rooted out of it by death or some desolating judgment; see Proverbs 2:22; and therefore not to be envied and fretted at;

but those that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth; such who attend his word, worship, and ordinances; obey his commands, trust in his grace and mercy; or, as the Targum, "trust in the word of the Lord"; who wait upon him for the manifestations of himself, for the performance of his promises, for answer of prayer, for supplies of grace, and live in the expectation of the heavenly glory; these shall have for their inheritance, not the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, which the obedient Jews enjoyed; but either this world and the necessaries of it, which such persons have the promise of, a right unto through Christ, are heirs of, and do enjoy what they do with a blessing; or else the new earth after this, in which only righteous ones, those that wait upon the Lord, and trust in him, will dwell; unless the heavenly country, the good land afar off, is meant, often called an inheritance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For evil-doers shall be cut off - See Psalms 37:2. This will be the termination of their course. They shall not ultimately prosper. God will order all things in equity, and though such men now seem to be prosperous, and to be the objects of the divine favor, yet all this is temporary. The day of retribution will certainly come, and they will be dealt with as they deserve. The reference here probably is to judgment in this life, or to the fact that God will, as a general law, show his disapprobation of the course of the wicked by judgments inflicted on them in this world. See Psalms 55:23, “Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days.” Proverbs 10:27, “the years of the wicked shall be shortened.” Compare Job 15:32. The idea here is that wicked men will be cut down before they reach the ordinary term of human life, or before they would be cut off if they were not wicked. Compare Psalms 37:35-36. This is not indeed universally true, but there are instances enough of this kind to establish it as a general rule. Intemperance, voluptuousness, the indulgence of violent passions, and the crimes proceeding therefrom, shorten the lives of multitudes who, but for these, might have lived long on the earth. As it is a general rule that virtue, piety, the fear of God, temperance, honesty, and the calmness of spirit which results from these, tend to lengthen out life, so it is certain that the opposites of these tend to abridge it. Neither virtue nor piety indeed make it absolutely certain that a man will live to be old; but vice and crime make it morally certain that he will not. At all events, it is true that the wicked are to live but a little while upon the earth; that they soon will, like other men, be cut down and removed; and therefore we should not fret and complain in regard to those who are so soon to pass away. Compare Psalms 73:0.

But those that wait upon the Lord - The pious; they who fear God and serve him.

They shall inherit the earth - Compare the notes at Psalms 37:3. See also Psalms 37:11, Psalms 37:22, Psalms 37:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:9. They shall inherit the earth. — The word ארץ arets, throughout this Psalm, should be translated land, not earth; for it is most probable that it refers to the land of Judea; and in this verse there is a promise of their return thither.


 
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