Psalms 37:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
  • Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
  • Job 20:23-29 : 23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain. 24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; 25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears. 26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent. 27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him. 28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath. 29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. 15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them. 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. 19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer. 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away. 21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
  • Ps 37:11-12 : 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 37:29 : 29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
  • Isa 57:13 : 13 Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.
  • Isa 58:14 : 14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
  • Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
  • Prov 2:21 : 21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

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  • Ps 37:34
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    34 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.

  • Ps 37:10-12
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    83%

    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
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    81%

    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 37:17-22
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    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.

    19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

    20 But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

    21 The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

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

  • Prov 2:21-22
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    79%

    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.

  • Ps 37:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 37:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 37:38
    78%

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

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    76%

    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.

  • Prov 20:22
    74%

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

  • Ps 34:16
    74%

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

  • Ps 92:7
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    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.

  • Ps 25:13
    73%

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

  • Prov 24:19
    72%

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

  • Ps 125:3-4
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    71%

    3 For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

    4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.

  • Isa 30:18
    71%

    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.

  • Matt 5:5
    71%

    5 Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

  • Isa 29:20
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    20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:

  • Isa 1:28
    70%

    28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

  • Ps 37:32
    70%

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

  • Prov 21:7
    70%

    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ps 112:10
    70%

    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 140:11
    70%

    11 Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

  • Prov 23:18
    70%

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

  • Prov 13:22
    70%

    22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

  • Lam 3:25
    70%

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

  • Ps 109:15
    70%

    15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

  • Prov 11:31
    70%

    31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

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

  • Ps 129:4
    70%

    4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.

  • Ps 27:14
    70%

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

  • Ps 21:10
    69%

    10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Isa 34:17
    69%

    17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Isa 42:4
    69%

    4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

  • Prov 11:6
    69%

    6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.