Psalm 37:33-36 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 37:21-33

These verses are much to the same purport with the Ps. 37:1-20 of this psalm, for it is a subject worthy to be dwelt upon. Observe here, I. What is required of us as the way to our happiness, which we may learn both from the characters here laid down and from the directions here given. If we would be blessed of God, 1. We must make conscience of giving every body his own; for the wicked borrows and pays not again, Ps. 37:21. It is the first thing which the Lord our God requires of us, that we... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 37:34-40

The psalmist's conclusion of this sermon (for that is the nature of this poem) is of the same purport with the whole, and inculcates the same things. I. The duty here pressed upon us is still the same (Ps. 37:34): Wait on the Lord and keep his way. Duty is ours, and we must mind it and make conscience of it, keep God's way and never turn out of it nor loiter in it, keep close, keep going; but events are God's and we must refer ourselves to him for the disposal of them; we must wait on the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:33

The Lord will not leave him in his hand ,.... Or power; but will in his own time deliver him from all the reproach, affliction, and persecution endures by him; as he will also deliver him out of all the temptations of Satan; nor condemn him when he is judged ; by the wicked man: he will not join in the sentence, but reverse it, and condemn the tongue that rises up in judgment against him, and save him from him; see Psalm 109:31 ; nor will the Lord condemn him when he is judged by him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:34

Wait on the Lord ,.... In the way of his appointments and ordinances; where may be learned the design of his providences, and of the prosperity of the wicked, and their end, Psalm 73:16 ; and in a providential way, for the performance of his promises, in which he never fails; and patiently bear whatever he is pleased to lay upon them; waiting for a deliverance out of every affliction, which will be in his own time. The Chaldee paraphrase "trust in the word of the Lord;' and keep his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power ,.... Meaning some particular person invested with great power, in great authority among men, one of the spiritual wickednesses in high places; such a man as Haman in Ahasuerus's court; and though the psalmist does not choose to mention his name, he doubtless had him in his mind; as either Saul, or Doeg the Edomite, or Ahithophel, or some such man, who was in an exalted station of life; and it may be when he himself was in low and distressed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:36

Yet he passed away ,.... At once, on a sudden; either his riches and honour, which, in one hour, came to nought, by one providence or another; or he himself by death; in the midst of all his prosperity, and while blessing himself in it, his soul was required of him; and so the Targum is, "he ceased from the world"; he went out of it unawares: the laurel, or bay tree, very quickly grows old F4 "Senescit velociter", Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 44. ; and, lo, he was not ; he was not... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:34

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way - This is the true mode of waiting on God which the Scripture recommends; keeping God's way - using all his ordinances, and living in the spirit of obedience. He who waits thus is sure to have the farther blessings of which he is in pursuit. קוה kavah , to wait, implies the extension of a right line from one point to another. The first point is the human heart; the line is its intense desire; and the last point is God, to whom this heart extends this... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree - Does not this refer to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and to the vision he had of the great tree which was in the midst of the earth, the head of which reached up to heaven? See Daniel 4:10 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:36

Yet he passed away - Both Nebuchadnezzar and his wicked successor, Belshazzar; and on the destruction of the latter, when God had weighed him in the balance, and found him wanting, numbered his days, and consigned him to death, his kingdom was delivered to the Medes and Persians; and thus the Babylonian empire was destroyed. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:34

Verse 34 34Wait upon Jehovah, and keep his way David again returns to the style of exhortation, in order that the faithful, trusting to God’s promises and sustained by them, may not suffer themselves to be drawn hither and thither by any temptations through devious and sinful ways, but may persevere steadfastly in the service of God. In the first place, he exhorts them to hope and patience, as if he wished them, amidst the tumults and troubles of life, to trust in God, and hold their peace till... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 37:21-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 37:34-40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 37:36

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:35

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:36

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 37:34

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