Psalms 37:38

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּֽ֭פֹשְׁעִים נִשְׁמְד֣וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו אַחֲרִ֖ית רְשָׁעִ֣ים נִכְרָֽתָה׃

Transliteration

But pōšəʿîm nišmədû together; [the] ʾaḥărît rəšāʿîm [is] nikrātâ.

Grammar Details

• *pōšəʿîm*: Qal participle, masculine plural - transgressors/rebels
• *nišmədû*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they are destroyed
• *yaḥdāw*: adverb - together/all at once
• *ʾaḥărît*: feminine singular construct - end/future of
• *rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - wicked ones
• *nikrātâ*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it is cut off

Word Meanings

• *pōšəʿîm*: transgressors/rebels/law-breakers
• *nišmədû*: are destroyed/are wiped out/are laid waste
• *ʾaḥărît rəšāʿîm nikrātâ*: the future of the wicked is cut off/the posterity of evildoers is destroyed

Referenced Verses

• Ps 1:4-6 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous; But the way of the wicked shall perish.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
• Matt 13:49-50 : 49 So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous, 50 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Ps 73:17 : 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.
• Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.