Psalms 37:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

Waite patiently vpon the Lorde and hope in him: fret not thy selfe for him which prospereth in his way: nor for the man that bringeth his enterprises to passe.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דּ֤וֹם ׀ לַיהוָה֮ וְהִתְח֢וֹלֵ֫ל ל֥וֹ אַל־תִּ֭תְחַר בְּמַצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכּ֑וֹ בְּ֝אִ֗ישׁ עֹשֶׂ֥ה מְזִמּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

Be dôm to YHWH and hitḥôlēl for him; do not titḥar with one who maṣlîaḥ [in] his darkô, with ʾîš who does məzimmôt.

Grammar Details

• *dôm*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - be silent/still/wait quietly
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *hitḥôlēl*: Hithpolel imperative, masculine singular - wait patiently
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - for him
• *titḥar*: Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - fret yourself/compete with
• *maṣlîaḥ*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - prospers/succeeds
• *darkô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his way
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ʿōśeh*: Qal participle, masculine singular - does/makes
• *məzimmôt*: feminine plural noun - evil devices/plots/schemes

Word Meanings

• *dôm*: be silent/be still/wait quietly/rest
• *hitḥôlēl*: wait patiently/wait anxiously/writhe in anxiety
• *titḥar*: fret yourself/be angry/be envious
• *maṣlîaḥ*: prospers/succeeds/makes successful
• *məzimmôt*: evil devices/schemes/plots/wicked plans

Referenced Verses

• Ps 27:14 : 14 Hope in the Lord: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and trust in the Lord.
• Ps 40:1 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. I Waited paciently for the Lorde, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry.
• Prov 20:22 : 22 Say not thou, I wil recompense euill: but waite vpon the Lord, and he shall saue thee.
• Jer 12:1 : 1 O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?
• Ps 62:1 : 1 To the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of Dauid. Yet my soule keepeth silence vnto God: of him commeth my saluation.
• Ps 62:5 : 5 Yet my soule keepe thou silence vnto God: for mine hope is in him.
• Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked. 4 For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong. 5 They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men. 6 Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish. 8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously. 9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches. 13 Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie. 14 For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
• Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus sayd the Lorde God, the Holy one of Israel, In rest and quietnes shall ye be saued: in quietnes and in confidence shall be your strength, but ye would not.
• Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him. 26 It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.
• Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shal speake, and not lie: though it tarie, waite: for it shall surely come, and shall not stay.
• Gal 6:9 : 9 Let vs not therefore be weary of well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye haue neede of patience, that after ye haue done the will of God, ye might receiue the promes. 37 For yet a very litle while, and hee that shall come, will come, and will not tary.
• Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, vnto the comming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill he receiue the former, and the latter rayne. 8 Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth nere. 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, least ye be condemned: behold, the iudge standeth before the doore. 10 Take, my brethren, the Prophets for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of long patience, which haue spoken in the Name of the Lord. 11 Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.
• Rev 13:3-9 : 3 And I sawe one of his heads as it were wounded to death, but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondred and folowed the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, & they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast! Who is able to warre with him! 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen. 7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, & power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation. 8 Therefore all that dwell vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of that Lambe, which was slaine from the beginning of the world. 9 If any man haue an eare, let him heare. 10 If any leade into captiuitie, hee shall go into captiuitie: if any kill with a sword, he must be killed by a sword: here is the patience and the faith of the Saints.
• Dan 11:36 : 36 And the King shall doe what him list: he shall exalt himselfe, and magnifie himselfe against all, that is God, & shall speake marueilous things against ye God of gods, & shall prosper, till ye wrath be accomplished: for ye determination is made.
• Jonah 1:11 : 11 Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 (5:7) If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
• Isa 8:17 : 17 Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.
• Isa 10:13-14 : 13 Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man. 14 And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
• Ps 50:8 : 8 I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
• Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? 8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. 11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. 12 They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? 16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me. 17 How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath. 18 They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. 19 God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off? 22 Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things? 23 One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie. 24 His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe. 25 And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. 26 They shal sleepe both in the dust, & the wormes shal couer them. 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong. 28 For ye say, Where is the princes house? & where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling? 29 May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes. 30 But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shal declare his way to his face? & who shal reward him for that he hath done? 32 Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape. 33 The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable. 34 How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
• Josh 10:12 : 12 Then spake Ioshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord gaue the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he sayd in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stay thou in Gibeon, and thou moone, in the valley of Aialon.