Psalms 37:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־מְ֭רֵעִים יִכָּרֵת֑וּן וְקֹוֵ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה הֵ֣מָּה יִֽירְשׁוּ־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

For mərēʿîm will yikkārētûn, and qôwê YHWH hēmmâ will yîrəšû-ʾāreṣ.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *mərēʿîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural - evildoers
• *yikkārētûn*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural (paragogic nun) - they will be cut off
• *qôwê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - those who wait for/hope in
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *hēmmâ*: 3rd person masculine plural pronoun - they
• *yîrəšû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will inherit/possess
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - land/earth

Word Meanings

• *mərēʿîm*: evildoers/those who do evil/wrongdoers
• *yikkārētûn*: will be cut off/will be destroyed/will be removed
• *qôwê*: those who wait for/those who hope in/those who expect
• *yîrəšû-ʾāreṣ*: will inherit the land/will possess the earth

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:21 : 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
• Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land.
• Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
• Job 20:23-29 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through. 25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him. 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.
• Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. 19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. 22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
• Ps 37:11-12 : 11 But the meek shall inherit the land, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 37:29 : 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Isa 57:13 : 13 When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
• Isa 58:14 : 14 then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 and madest them [to be] unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon earth.
• Prov 2:21 : 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.