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Psalms 37:5-15
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Commit your way to the LORD! Trust him! He will act
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and will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like high noon.
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Be still before the LORD, and wait for him. Don't get upset when someone gets ahead— someone who invents evil schemes.
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Let go of anger and leave rage behind! Don't get upset—it will only lead to evil.
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Because evildoers will be eliminated, but those who hope in the LORD— they will possess the land.
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In just a little while the wicked won't exist! If you go looking around their place, they won't be there.
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But the weak will inherit the land; they will enjoy a surplus of peace.
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The wicked plot against the righteous, grinding their teeth at them.
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But my Lord just laughs at them because he knows that their day is coming.
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The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to bring down the weak and the needy, to slaughter those whose way is right.
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But the sword of the wicked will enter their own hearts! Their bows will be broken!
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Psalms 37:5-15 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 37
\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This psalm, it is very probable, was written at the same time, and upon the same occasion, with the former; and describes the different states of good and bad men; and is full of exhortations, instructions, and advice to the people of God; intermixed with various encouraging promises. A late learned writer {h} thinks it was written for Mephibosheth's consolation under Ziba's calumny. {h} Delaney's Life of King David, vol. 2. p. 219.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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- [a]. Correction with LXX, Vulg
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