Psalm 37:29
New International Version
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

New Living Translation
The godly will possess the land and will live there forever.

English Standard Version
The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.

Berean Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

King James Bible
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

New King James Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell in it forever.

New American Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever.

NASB 1995
The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever.

NASB 1977
The righteous will inherit the land, And dwell in it forever.

Legacy Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land And dwell in it forever.

Amplified Bible
The righteous will inherit the land And live in it forever.

Christian Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it permanently.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it permanently.

American Standard Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the righteous ones inherit the Earth and dwell upon it for eternity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever.

Contemporary English Version
God's people will own the land and live here forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.

English Revised Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Righteous people will inherit the land and live there permanently.

Good News Translation
The righteous will possess the land and live in it forever.

International Standard Version
The righteous will inherit the land, and they will dwell in it forever.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.

Literal Standard Version
The righteous possess the land, | And they dwell on it forever.

Majority Standard Bible
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

New American Bible
The righteous will inherit the earth and dwell in it forever.

NET Bible
The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

New Heart English Bible
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

World English Bible
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Young's Literal Translation
The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off. 29The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever. 30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.…

Cross References
Psalm 37:9
For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Psalm 37:18
The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

Psalm 69:36
The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

Proverbs 2:21
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

Proverbs 10:30
The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.


Treasury of Scripture

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Psalm 37:9,11,18,27
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth…

Deuteronomy 30:20
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Proverbs 2:21
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

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Psalm 37
1. David persuades to patience and confidence in God,
12. by the different estate of the godly and the wicked














Verse 29. - The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for over (comp. vers. 3, 9, 11, 18, 22, 28, 34; and Proverbs 2:21). Bishop Butler sagaciously remarks that this is the natural tendency of things, if sufficient time be given, and accidental hindrances removed ('Analogy,' pt. 1. ch. 4.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The righteous
צַדִּיקִ֥ים (ṣad·dî·qîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

will inherit
יִֽירְשׁוּ־ (yî·rə·šū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

the land
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and dwell
וְיִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ (wə·yiš·kə·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

in it
עָלֶֽיהָ׃ (‘ā·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

forever.
לָעַ֣ד (lā·‘aḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity


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