Psalm 37:38

38 Die Übertreter aber werden vertilgt allesamt, es wird abgeschnitten die Zukunft der Gesetzlosen.

Psalm 37:38 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 37:38

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together
This is to be understood of obstinate and continued transgressors, who live and die in their transgressions; see ( Proverbs 11:3 ) ; otherwise all men are transgressors in Adam, and sinned and fell with him in his transgression; and are justly called transgressors from the womb; and are guilty of actual transgressions, nor are any clear from them; and are arraigned, convinced, and judged by the law as transgressors; and for many of these Christ died, and makes intercession; and who are converted, and turned from their transgressions; and these are pardoned, and saved, and not destroyed: but stubborn and perverse transgressors are destroyed; not only with a temporal destruction of their substance, and of their names, and they themselves are rooted out of the earth; but with an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power; for this seems to refer to the day of judgment, when all the wicked will be "together"; and shall in a body stand at Christ's left hand, and be bid to go, "ye cursed into everlasting fire", ( Matthew 25:41 ) , and shall be turned into hell at once, and together;

the end of the wicked shall be cut off;
meaning either their posterity, as the word is rendered in ( Psalms 109:13 ) ; or their hope and expectation of good things here and hereafter; when the righteous man receives the end of his faith, hope, and expectation, even the salvation of his soul; but these shall be disappointed and frustrated of their end; see ( Proverbs 23:18 ) ; or their last end is cutting off from the presence and sight of God, utter ruin and destruction; and so it stands opposed to the end of the perfect and upright man, which is eternal peace and happiness.

Psalm 37:38 In-Context

36 und man ging vorbei, und siehe, er war nicht mehr; und ich suchte ihn, und er ward nicht gefunden.

37 Achte auf den Unsträflichen und sieh auf den Aufrichtigen; denn für den Mann des Friedens gibt es eine Zukunft.

38 Die Übertreter aber werden vertilgt allesamt, es wird abgeschnitten die Zukunft der Gesetzlosen.

39 Aber die Rettung der Gerechten ist von Jehova, der ihre Stärke ist zur Zeit der Bedrängnis;

40 und Jehova wird ihnen helfen und sie erretten; er wird sie erretten von den Gesetzlosen und ihnen Rettung verschaffen, denn sie trauen auf ihn.