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Psalm 37

Psa. 37:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For evildoers
ra`a` (Hebrew #7489)
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Pronounce: raw-ah'
Origin: a primitive root
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
: but those that wait
qavah (Hebrew #6960)
to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect
KJV usage: gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).
Pronounce: kaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
upon 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
, they shall inherit
yarash (Hebrew #3423)
a primitive root; to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin
KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, X without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) + magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, X utterly.
Pronounce: yaw-rash'
Origin: or yaresh {yaw-raysh'}
the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Ministry on This Verse

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evil-doers.
Psa. 37:35‑36• 35I have seen the wicked [man] strong{HR}And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
 36And he passeth away and behold he is not;{HR}And I seek him, and he is not found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)
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Psa. 55:23• 23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of corruption:{HR}Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days.{HR}But for me, I will trust in thee. (Psa. 55:23)
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Job 20:23‑29• 23That it may be to the filling of his belly,{HR}He shall send against him the burning of his anger,{HR}And rain upon him with his food.
 24He fleeth from a weapon of iron,{HR}A bow of copper pierceth him through;
 25It is drawn, and it cometh out of the body,{HR}And the glittering sword proceedeth out of his gall:{HR}Upon him [are] terrors.
 26All darkness [is] hid for his treasures,{HR}A fire not blown consumeth him;{HR}It shall fare ill with what is left in his tent.
 27The heavens reveal his iniquity,{HR}And the earth riseth up against him.
 28The increase of his house departeth,{HR}Things that ran away in the day of his anger.
 29This [is] the portion of the wicked man from God [Elohim],{HR}And the heritage of his sentence from God [El]. (Job 20:23‑29)
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Job 27:13,14‑23• 13This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God,{HR}And the heritage of oppressors they receive from the Almighty.
 14If his children multiply, [it is] for the sword,{HR}And his offspring have not enough of bread;
 15His residue are buried in death, and their widows weep not.
 16If he heap up silver as dust, and prepare clothing as clay,
 17He prepareth, but the righteous shall put [it] on,{HR}And the innocent shall divide the silver.
 18He hath built his house as a moth,{HR}And as a booth the watchman needeth.
 19He lieth down, but shall not be gathered;{HR}He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
 20Terrors overtake him as waters,{HR}By night a tempest stealeth him away.
 21An east wind taketh him up, and he is gone,{HR}And it sweepeth him out of his place;
 22And it casteth at him, and spareth not;{HR}From its hand he would gladly flee.
 23It clappeth its hands at him,{HR}And hisseth him out of his place. (Job 27:13,14‑23)
inherit.
Psa. 37:11‑12,29• 11But the meek shall inherit the earth{HR}And delight themselves in abundance of peace.
 12The wicked [man] deviseth evil against the righteous [man]{HR}And gnasheth his teeth upon him.
 29The righteous shall inherit the earth{HR}And shall dwell forever upon it. (Psa. 37:11‑12,29)
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Psa. 25:13• 13His soul abideth in goodness,{HR}And his seed shall inherit the earth. (Psa. 25:13)
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Isa. 58:14• 14then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. (Isa. 58:14)
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Isa. 60:21• 21Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall possess the land forever—the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (Isa. 60:21)
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Heb. 11:16• 16but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:16)
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Rev. 5:10• 10and hast made them to our God kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth. (Rev. 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.
• Instead of fretting let the godly trust in the Lord, and he will find that while the wicked “shall soon be cut down,” the one who trusts will dwell in the land and be fed. (“Psalm 37” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the landi.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "the earth"; and so in vers. 11,22,29,34. see Ps. 25.13 and Note, Matt. 5.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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For evil-doers shall be cut off,{HR}But those who wait for Jehovah,{HR}They shall inherit the earth.