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UST by section PSA 37:1

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Psalm 37

This is a psalm of David.

Do not let what wicked people do upset you;

do not wish that you had what people who do evil things have.

2 Do not worry about them because they will soon disappear, just as grass dries up in the sun

and green plants quickly wither and die.

3 Trust in Yahweh and do what is right;

live in the land that he has given you,

and be faithful to him.

4 Also, enjoy Yahweh more than anything else;

then he will give you what you desire most.

5 Entrust everything that you plan to do to Yahweh;

trust in him,

and then, for his part, he will do whatever you need him to do.

6 He will show everyone as clearly as the light of the noonday sun that you do what is right

and that you are innocent of doing anything wrong.

7 Be calm before Yahweh and wait patiently for him to act.

Do not become upset when you see evil people succeed

as they do the wicked things that they have planned.

8 Stop being angry about what wicked people do;

do not want to punish them yourself; that only leads to doing evil.

9 Do not do that because Yahweh will destroy people who do evil,

but as for the people who trust Yahweh to act, they will possess the land.

10 Soon wicked people will disappear.

You will look for them where they used to be, but they will be gone.

11 Humble people, however, will possess the land

and will enjoy living there very peacefully and well.

12 Wicked people plan to harm people who do what is right.

They grind their teeth at people who do what is right to show how much they hate them.

13 But the Lord scoffs at wicked people,

because he knows that the time when he will judge them is coming.

14 Wicked people draw their swords and string their bows

to kill people who are poor and helpless

and to slaughter people who live honestly.

15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts,

and the Lord will break their bows.

16 It is better to be a person who does what is right and to have only a few possessions

than to have the abundant wealth of many wicked people.

17 This is so because Yahweh will make wicked people unable to do what they want to do,

but he will take care of people who do what is right.

18 Each day Yahweh watches over people who do not do wrong things,

and what he gives them will last forever.

19 During times when bad things happen they will not despair;

even when there is a famine, they will still have enough to eat.

20 But wicked people will die.

Those who hate Yahweh will be like wildflowers that look beautiful in the meadows;

but then they will disappear as quickly as a puff of smoke.

21 Wicked people borrow money and never repay it,

but people who do what is right are generous and give freely to others.

22 Moreover, those whom Yahweh blesses will possess the land,

but he will destroy those whom he has cursed.

23 Yahweh directs a person to live securely,

and he is pleased with how that person lives.

24 Even if something bad happens to that person, he will not completely fail,

because Yahweh takes care of him.

25 I have been young, and now I am old,

but in all those years I have never seen Yahweh stop caring for any person who does what is right,

nor have I seen such a person’s children needing to beg for food.

26 People who do what is right are generous and lend freely to others every day,

and their children bless others.

27 Avoid doing evil and do what is right.

If you do that, you and your descendants will live in the land forever.

28 Indeed, Yahweh loves it when people do what is just,

and he will never stop caring for those who are faithful to him.

He will protect them forever,

but he will destroy the descendants of wicked people.

29 People who do what is right will possess the land that Yahweh gives them

and will live there forever.

30 People who do what is right speak wisely,

and they say what is just.

31 They continually think about the instructions that their God gave to them;

they succeed in living the way that God wants them to live.

32 Wicked people observe people who do what is right

and look for ways to kill them.

33 But Yahweh will keep protecting them from what the wicked people want to do to them,

and he will not let a judge wrongly condemn the people who do what is right.

34 Patiently rely on Yahweh to help you and obey what he commands.

If you do that, he will honor you by giving you the land.

When God destroys the wicked people, you will see it happen.

35 I once saw a wicked and tyrannical person who was becoming powerful, like a large tree that was spreading out its branches over its native soil.

36 But then he passed away! Suddenly, he was gone!

I looked for him, but he was not there.

37 Observe and imitate people who are honest and who live rightly,

because people who live peacefully will have a long life.

38 But Yahweh will destroy all people who rebel against him;

he will make the lives of wicked people short.

39 Yahweh saves people who do what is right;

he protects them when bad things are happening.

40 Yahweh helps them and rescues them

from what wicked people want to do to them.

He saves them because they have trusted in him to help them.