Psalms 37:33

THE MESSAGE

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord will not let the wicked defeat them. He will not let good people be judged guilty.

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

²¹Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass. ²³Stalwart walks in step with God ; his path blazed by God , he's happy. If he stumbles, he's not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. ²⁵I once was young, now I'm a graybeard— not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. Every day he's out giving and lending, his children making him proud. ²⁷Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots. Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's. Wicked sets a watch for Righteous, he's out for the kill. God , alert, is also on watch— Wicked won't hurt a hair of his head. Wait passionately for God , don't leave the path. He'll give you your place in the sun while you watch the wicked lose it. I saw Wicked bloated like a toad, croaking pretentious nonsense. The next time I looked there was nothing— a punctured bladder, vapid and limp. Keep your eye on the healthy soul, scrutinize the straight life; There's a future in strenuous wholeness. But the willful will soon be discarded; insolent souls are on a dead-end street. The spacious, free life is from God , it's also protected and safe. God -strengthened, we're delivered from evil— when we run to him, he saves us. ²⁹class="psalm-title"> A David Psalm Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked. In no time they'll shrivel like grass clippings and wilt like cut flowers in the sun. Get insurance with God and do a good deed, settle down and stick to your last. Keep company with God , get in on the best. Open up before God , keep nothing back; he'll do whatever needs to be done: He'll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon. Quiet down before God , be prayerful before him. Don't bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top. Bridle your anger, trash your wrath, cool your pipes—it only makes things worse. Before long the crooks will be bankrupt; God -investors will soon own the store. Before you know it, the wicked will have had it; you'll stare at his once famous place and—nothing! Down-to-earth people will move in and take over, relishing a huge bonanza. Bad guys have it in for the good guys, obsessed with doing them in. But God isn't losing any sleep; to him they're a joke with no punch line. Bullies brandish their swords, pull back on their bows with a flourish. They're out to beat up on the harmless, or mug that nice man out walking his dog. A banana peel lands them flat on their faces— slapstick figures in a moral circus. Less is more and more is less. One righteous will outclass fifty wicked, For the wicked are moral weaklings but the righteous are God -strong. God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won't soon be forgotten. In hard times, they'll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they'll be full. God-despisers have had it; God 's enemies are finished— Stripped bare like vineyards at harvest time, vanished like smoke in thin air. Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass. Stalwart walks in step with God ; his path blazed by God , he's happy. If he stumbles, he's not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. I once was young, now I'm a graybeard— not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. Every day he's out giving and lending, his children making him proud. Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots. ³⁰Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's. ³²Wicked sets a watch for Righteous, he's out for the kill. God , alert, is also on watch— Wicked won't hurt a hair of his head.

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

2 Kings 2:24
Elisha turned, took one look at them, and cursed them in the name of God . Two bears charged out of the underbrush and knocked them about, ripping them limb from limb—forty-two children in all!

Proverbs 14:15
The gullible believe anything they're told; the prudent sift and weigh every word.

John 13:7
Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later."

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.