Psalms 37:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

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  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
  • Ps 37:9 : 9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
  • Ps 52:5-6 : 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.) 6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:
  • Ps 91:8 : 8 Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.
  • Ps 92:10-11 : 10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head. 11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
  • Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you. 26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered. 27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
  • Prov 16:17 : 17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.
  • Prov 20:22 : 22 Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
  • Matt 24:13 : 13 But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
  • Job 23:10-12 : 10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold. 11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other. 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:1-12
    12 verses
    87%

    1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

    3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

    4 So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

    5 Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

    6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

    7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

    8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

    9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

    10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

    11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

    12 The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

  • Ps 37:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27 Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

    28 For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

    29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

  • Ps 37:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

    33 The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

  • Ps 37:22-24
    3 verses
    76%

    22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

    23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

    24 Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

  • Ps 37:35
    76%

    35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

  • Ps 27:14
    76%

    14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

  • Prov 20:22
    75%

    22 Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.

  • Ps 37:38
    74%

    38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

  • Prov 2:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

    22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

  • Isa 30:18
    73%

    18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

  • Ps 37:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

    18 The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

  • Prov 10:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

    29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

    30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

  • Ps 92:7
    72%

    7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Prov 23:18
    72%

    18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • Ps 91:8
    72%

    8 Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

  • Prov 24:19
    71%

    19 Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Lam 3:25
    71%

    25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

  • Ps 112:10
    71%

    10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • Ps 41:2
    71%

    2 The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

  • Ps 107:42
    71%

    42 The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.

  • Job 36:17
    71%

    17 ...

  • Ps 39:7
    71%

    7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Ps 34:16
    70%

    16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

  • Jer 17:7
    70%

    7 A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

  • Prov 29:16
    70%

    16 When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.

  • Ps 25:13
    70%

    13 His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.

  • Ps 25:21
    70%

    21 For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

  • Job 35:14
    70%

    14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • Job 36:7
    70%

    7 Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.