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Psalm 37

Psa. 37:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fore the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
loveth
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, and forsaketh
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
not his saints
chaciyd (Hebrew #2623)
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
KJV usage: godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, (un- )godly.
Pronounce: khaw-seed'
Origin: from 2616
; they are preserved
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
f for ever
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
: butg the seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
shall be cut off
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
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loveth.
forsaketh.
Psa. 37:25,40• 25I have been a youth, I have also become old:{HR}Yet have I not seen the righteous [man] forsaken,{HR}Nor his seed begging for bread.
40And Jehovah helpeth them and delivereth them;{HR}He will deliver them and save them{HR}Because they have trusted in him.
(Psa. 37:25,40)
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Psa. 92:13‑15• 13Planted in Jehovah's house,{HR}In the courts of our God, they shall flourish.
14Still shall they bear fruit in old age;{HR}Fat and green shall they be;
15To show that Jehovah is upright:{HR}[He is] my rock, and no unrighteousness [is] in him.
(Psa. 92:13‑15)
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Isa. 59:21• 21And as for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith Jehovah, My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and forever. (Isa. 59:21)
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Jer. 32:40‑41• 40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
(Jer. 32:40‑41)
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John 5:24• 24Verily, verily, I say to you, He that heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life eternal, and cometh not into judgment, but is passed out of death into life. (John 5:24)
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John 6:39‑40• 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day.
(John 6:39‑40)
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John 10:28‑30• 28and I give them life eternal, and they shall in no wise ever perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
29My Father who hath given me [them] is greater than all; and no one is able to seize out of the hand of my Father.
30I and the Father are one.
(John 10:28‑30)
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John 15:9• 9As the Father loved me, I also loved you: abide in my love. (John 15:9)
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1 John 2:19• 19From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have abode with us, but [they went out] that they might be manifested that none are of us. (1 John 2:19)
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1 Peter 1:5• 5that are being guarded by God's power through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in a last season. (1 Peter 1:5)
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Jude 1• 1Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and preserved by Jesus Christ: (Jude 1)
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 There is a moral reason for God's ways—He loves judgment; besides that, there is the assurance of sovereign love. He loves his saints. (Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 37-39 by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saintse: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

JND Translation Notes

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Chasid, as Ps. 30.4.

W. Kelly Translation

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For Jehovah loveth justice{HR}And forsaketh not his holy ones;{HR}They are preserved forever,{HR}But the seed of the wicked is cut off.