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Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;
Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

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Be still(A) before the Lord
    and wait patiently(B) for him;
do not fret(C) when people succeed in their ways,(D)
    when they carry out their wicked schemes.(E)

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Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

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For those who do evil will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.(A)
10 
For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].(B)

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For those who are evil will be destroyed,(A)
    but those who hope(B) in the Lord will inherit the land.(C)

10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;(D)
    though you look for them, they will not be found.

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For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

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38 
As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed;
The future of the wicked will be cut off.

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38 But all sinners(A) will be destroyed;(B)
    there will be no future[a] for the wicked.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:38 Or posterity

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

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He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.(A)

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He will judge the nations,(A) heaping up the dead(B)
    and crushing the rulers(C) of the whole earth.

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He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

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22 
But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.

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22 but the wicked(A) will be cut off from the land,(B)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.(C)

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22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer the punishment of their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned [under the curse of God’s wrath], and few people are left.(A)

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Therefore a curse(A) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,(B)
    and very few are left.

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Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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28 
But rebels and sinners will be crushed and destroyed together,
And those who abandon (turn away from) the Lord will be consumed (perish).

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28 But rebels and sinners(A) will both be broken,
    and those who forsake(B) the Lord will perish.(C)

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28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

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Listen carefully, the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with wrath and raging anger,
To make the land a horror [of devastation];
And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.(A)

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See, the day(A) of the Lord is coming
    —a cruel(B) day, with wrath(C) and fierce anger(D)
to make the land desolate
    and destroy the sinners within it.

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Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

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21 
Listen carefully, the Lord is about to come out of His [heavenly] place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];
The earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her
And will no longer cover her slain.

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21 See, the Lord is coming(A) out of his dwelling(B)
    to punish(C) the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood(D) shed on it;
    the earth will conceal its slain no longer.

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21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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