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Psalms 37:38

The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

The end of the wicked

The condition of the sinner is an awful one notwithstanding things may seem lovely and fair to him now. He resembles the man who lives in a magnificent mansion on the brow of a volcano, the situation is beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, the sky is beautiful, the air is beautiful, but there are fires that work beneath. These will one day rive the mountain, blacken the sky, and engulf the mansion and its proprietor. (R. Venting.)

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See also Psalms 37:38 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THE TRANSGRESSORS - Sinners; violators of the law of God. SHALL BE DESTROYED TOGETHER - The word “together” here - יחדּו _yach__e__dâh_ - means properly “a union of them;” then, together - eithe...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 37 The Blessed Lot of the Righteous Contrasted with the Wicked _ 1. Waiting for Jehovah and His promise (Psalms 37:1)_ 2. The doom of the wicked and the portion of the righteous (Psalms 37:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXXVII. An acrostic poem. Its object is to teach patience and hope. The pious Jews, the Hasidim of Psalms 4:3 * who observe the Law strictly, are at present poor and oppressed. They are to wait for th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TRANSGRESSORS. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The final contrast....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    But transgressors are destroyed together: The posterity of the wicked is cut off. Cp. Psalms 37:28; Psalms 109:13; Job 18:13-21. To the Israelite, with his strong sense of the continuity of life in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Stanza of _Shin_. The future of the wicked and the righteous. _Mark_ I.e. observe. The P.B.V., _Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right_, follows the LXX, Vulg., Symm., Jer., Syr.,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SHALL BE DESTROYED TOGETHER— Or, _at once:_ "They shall all at once be totally destroyed." See Psalms 49:10 in the Hebrew. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The way of duty is made very plain, and therefore we are m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 37 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Alphabetical Exhortation to Patience in Well-Doing, notwithstanding the Temporary Prosperity of the Lawless. ANALYSIS It is not easy to resolve this psalm into any ot...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MARK THE PERFECT MAN, AND BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT: FOR THE END OF THAT MAN IS PEACE._ Mark ... (man) ... for the end of (that) man (is) peace. As there is no Hebrew for "that" before "man" [not _ LAA'IYS...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is an acrostic Ps., in which the alphabetic arrangement is carried without a break through 22 stanzas of varying length, to which the vv. of the English Bible do not correspond. The contents are...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּֽ֭ פֹשְׁעִים נִשְׁמְד֣וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו אַחֲרִ֖ית רְשָׁעִ֣ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 37:1 THERE is a natural connection between acrostic structure and didactic tone, as is shown in several instances, and especially in this psalm. The structure is on the whole regular, each seco...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    STEPS THAT SHALL NOT SLIDE Psalms 37:30 How dear this psalm has been to God's saints! It has been peculiarly prized by them in all ages. Gerhardt has paraphrased it in his noble hymn: Give to the w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This psalm has as its keynote "Fret not." The underlying problem is the prosperity of evil men. It is an astonishment and a perplexity still, troubling many a tried and trusting heart. The psalmist fi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have not interrupted the progress of these verses from the same reason as before: they contain so many beautiful repetitions of the same unquestionable truth; the wicked shall not go unpunished, nei...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 37. In this interesting psalm the great point pressed on the remnant, a lesson for every soul, is waiting on Jehovah, and not having the spirit disturbed by evil; they will soon be cut down lik...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Ver. 38. _But the transgressors, &c._] Here the end is worse than the beginning. Sin ever ends tragically....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Mark the perfect man_, &c. Behold now a very different character, a man who is upright before God, who sincerely desires and endeavours to please and glorify him, and therefore makes it his care to w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; the end of the wicked, their entire posterity, SHALL BE CUT OFF....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE APPARENT GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS COMPARED WITH THE BELIEVERS' TRUE HAPPINESS. A psalm of David, rightly considered one of the most beautiful written by him, called by Luther the garment of th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    34-40 Duty is ours, and we must mind it; but events are God's, we must refer the disposal of them to him. What a striking picture is in ver. Psalms 37:35; Psalms 37:36, of many a prosperous enemy of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TOGETHER; or, _alike_, one as well as another; all, without any exception or respect of persons. THE END OF THE WICKED SHALL BE CUT OFF, i. e. he shall be cut off at last, or in the end. His prosperit...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 37:38 transgressors H6586 (H8802) destroyed H8045 (H8738) together H3162 future H319 wicked H7563 off H3772 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    4). THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BEHAVIOUR AND DESTINIES OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS (TSADE TO TAU - PSALMS 37:32). The Psalmist concludes his Psalm by making contrasts between the lives and...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 37:38 I. The character here presented for our study: the perfect and upright man. The essential principle of the perfectness of which David speaks is a heart right with God, a life whose root...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 37:17. _For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous._ They must stand, therefore, for how shall he fall whom God upholds? Psalms 37:18. The LORD knoweth t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    May the Spirit of God graciously apply this Psalm to our hearts, comforting us as no one else can! Is he not the Comforter, and what better cordial has he for our spirits than his own Word? Psalms 37...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 37:1. _Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity._ They often seem to have the best of it in this life; but if it really is so, we must nev...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This is one of the Psalms of David which have often cheered the saints of God when they have been perplexed because of the prosperity of the wicked and their own troubles. Psalms 37:1. _Fret not thys...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The riddle of the prosperity of the wicked and the affliction of the righteous. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The believer should never waste a minute fretting about his enemies, but...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 37:1. _Fret not thyself,_ be not angry or irritated, _because of evil doers._ Let the consummate courtier gain elevation, let the merchant aggrandize his family, and the rich men buy the lands...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 37:1. This can be called a wisdom psalm because it reflects on themes normally dealt with in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature, particularly in Prove

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 37:32 This final section assures the faithful that THE LORD WILL NOT ABANDON them to the POWER of the WICKED (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION This psalm was probably written by David in his old age, and contains his experience in reference to the providential dealings of God with men. It acknowledges the transient prosperity o...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is another of the alphabetical psalms (see above, Psalms 9:1; Psalms 25:1; and 34.), and, though more free from irregularities than the previous ones, is not altogether without them. W...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 37:1-40 is an interesting psalm of David in which he begins with the words, Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity (Psalms 37:1). In verse...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Matthew 13:30; Matthew 13:49;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Together — All without exception....

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