Psalm 37:9 {36:9}
Good News Translation
Those who trust in the LORD will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out.

New Revised Standard Version
For the wicked shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

Contemporary English Version
All sinners will disappear, but if you trust the LORD, the land will be yours.

New American Bible
Those who do evil will be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD will inherit the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

evil doers

Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus. . . .

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Job 20:23-29 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him. . . .

Job 27:13,14 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty. . . .

inherit

Psalm 37:11,12,29 But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace. . . .

Psalm 25:13 His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 60:21 And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Revelation 5:10 And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

the earth.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
8Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil. 9For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Psalm 25:3
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

Psalm 25:13
His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

Psalm 37:2
For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Psalm 37:22
For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 37:29
But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.

Psalm 37:34
Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.

Psalm 37:38
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 2:21
But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Isaiah 57:13
When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount.

Isaiah 60:21
And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.

Psalm 37:8
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