For evildoers shall be cut off
Though they flourish for a while, they shall be cut down like the
grass or flower of the field, or they shall be cut off as
branches from a flourishing tree; they shall be cut off from the
earth, and rooted out of it by death or some desolating judgment;
see ( Proverbs
2:22 ) ; and therefore not to be envied and fretted at;
but those that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the
earth;
such who attend his word, worship, and ordinances; obey his
commands, trust in his grace and mercy; or, as the Targum, "trust
in the word of the Lord"; who wait upon him for the
manifestations of himself, for the performance of his promises,
for answer of prayer, for supplies of grace, and live in the
expectation of the heavenly glory; these shall have for their
inheritance, not the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and
honey, which the obedient Jews enjoyed; but either this world and
the necessaries of it, which such persons have the promise of, a
right unto through Christ, are heirs of, and do enjoy what they
do with a blessing; or else the new earth after this, in which
only righteous ones, those that wait upon the Lord, and trust in
him, will dwell; unless the heavenly country, the good land afar
off, is meant, often called an inheritance.