A psalm of David
37
📚✭Do not fret because of evildoers,
or be envious of those who do
wicked things.
2 📚✭For they will soon be
cut down like the grass,
and wither like the green plant.
3 📚✭Trust in the LORD,
and do good;
so dwell in the land,
and faithfully you will be fed.
4 📚✭Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires
of your heart.
5 📚✭Commit your way to the LORD
and trust in him,
and he will accomplish this.
6 📚✭He will bring forth
your righteousness
like the light,
and your just cause like
the noonday.
7 📚✭Rest in the LORD and wait
patiently for him.
Do not fret✭ because
of the one who
prospers in his way,
because of the man who
carries out wicked schemes.
8 📚Cease from anger
and forsake wrath.
Do not at all fret
and so do wrong.
9 📚✭For evildoers will be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD
will inherit the earth.
10 📚For yet a little while,
and the wicked will be
no more.
Yes, you will look diligently
for his place,
and it will not be.
11 📚But the meek will inherit
the earth and delight themselves
in the abundance of peace.
12 📚✭The wicked plots against the just
and gnashes at him with
his teeth.
13 📚The Lord will laugh at him,
for he sees that his day is coming.
14 📚✭The wicked have drawn the sword
and bent their bow to bring down
the poor and needy,
and to kill those
who are of upright conduct.
15 📚Their sword will enter their
own heart,
and their bows will be broken.
16 📚✭A little that a righteous man has is
better than the many riches
of the wicked.
17 📚For the arms of the wicked
will be broken,
but the LORD upholds
the righteous.
18 📚✭The LORD knows the days
of the upright,
and their inheritance will be forever.
19 📚They will not be put to shame
in the evil time,
and in the days of famine
they will have plenty.
20 📚But the wicked will perish,
and the enemies of the LORD
will be like the splendour
of the meadows✭.
They will vanish, vanish away
into smoke.
21 📚The wicked borrows
and does not repay;
but the righteous shows mercy,
and gives.
22 📚For those who are blessed
by the LORD will inherit
the earth,
and those who are cursed
by him will be cut off.
23 📚The steps of a good man
are established by the LORD
who delights in his way.
24 📚✭Though he falls, he will not be
completely thrown down;
for the LORD upholds him
with his hand.
25 📚✭I have been young,
and am now old,
yet I have not seen the righteous
forsaken,
or his offspring begging bread.
26 📚He is always merciful
and lends,
and his offspring are blessed.
27 📚✭Depart from evil,
and do good, and dwell forever.
28 📚✭For the LORD loves justice
and does not forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever.
But the offspring of the wicked
will be cut off.
29 📚The righteous will inherit
the land,
and live in it forever.
30 📚✭The mouth of the righteous
speaks wisdom and his tongue
talks of justice.
31 📚The law of his God is
in his heart.
None of his steps will slip.
32 📚The wicked watches the righteous,
and seeks to kill him.
33 📚The LORD will not leave
the righteous in his hands,
or condemn him
when he is judged.
34 📚✭Wait for the LORD and
keep his way,
and he will exalt you
to inherit the land.
When the wicked are cut off,
you will see it.
35 📚✭I have seen the wicked
in great power,
and spreading himself like
a native green tree.
36 📚Yet he passed away,
and lo and behold,
he was no more;
yes, I looked for him,
but he could not be found.
37 📚Consider the blameless man,
and see the upright;
for the future of that
man is peace.
38 📚But the transgressors will be
destroyed together;
the future of the wicked
will be cut off.
39 📚But the salvation✭ of the righteous
is from the LORD.
He is their strength✭
in the time of trouble.
40 📚And the LORD will help them,
and deliver them.
He will deliver them
from the wicked,
and save them, because
they trust in him.