Psalm 37:40
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD helps them, rescuing them from the wicked. He saves them, and they find shelter in him.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The LORD helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD helps and delivers them; He will deliver them from the wicked and will save them because they take refuge in Him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked, and he will save them because they have sought refuge in him.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD helps them and rescues them; he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, for they seek his protection.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Lord Jehovah is a helper for them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they hope in him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from wicked people. He saves them because they have taken refuge in him.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

American King James Version
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them; He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord will help them and deliver them : and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.

English Revised Version
And the LORD helpeth them, and rescueth them: he rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, because they have taken refuge in him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD will help them, and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

World English Bible
Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah doth help them and deliver them, He delivereth them from the wicked, And saveth them, Because they trusted in Him!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:34-40 Duty is ours, and we must mind it; but events are God's, we must refer the disposal of them to him. What a striking picture is in ver. 35,36, of many a prosperous enemy of God! But God remarkably blights the projects of the prosperous wicked, especially persecutors. None are perfect in themselves, but believers are so in Christ Jesus. If all the saint's days continue dark and cloudy, his dying day may prove comfortable, and his sun set bright; or, if it should set under a cloud, yet his future state will be everlasting peace. The salvation of the righteous will be the Lord's doing. He will help them to do their duties, to bear their burdens; help them to bear their troubles well, and get good by them, and, in due time, will deliver them out of their troubles. Let sinners then depart from evil, and do good; repent of and forsake sin, and trust in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ. Let them take his yoke upon them, and learn of him, that they may dwell for evermore in heaven. Let us mark the closing scenes of different characters, and always depend on God's mercy.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them; he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. The ground of God's favour towards the righteous, and the ground moreover of their righteousness itself (ver. 3), is their trust in him. Trusting in him, they have taken his Law for their rule of life, and made it their constant endeavour to serve and please him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord shall help them,.... In their distress, and out of their troubles, when none else can, and they themselves cannot; and that seasonably, and sometimes with means, and sometimes without;

and deliver them; out of all their afflictions, which he does sooner or later; if not in life, yet at death;

he shall deliver them from the wicked; this is repeated both for confirmation and explanation sake, showing who they are the Lord will deliver his people from, even from wicked and unreasonable men; he will not leave them in their hands now to do with them as they shall think fit; and he will free them from them to all eternity in the other world, where they shall cease from giving them any trouble;

and save them, because they trust in him; not that there is any saving virtue in faith, or in trusting in the Lord; the saving virtue is in the Lord, the object of faith and trust; but inasmuch as the Lord has appointed salvation to be through faith, or has made that the means of receiving and enjoying salvation, and the blessings of it, and has declared that he that believeth shall be saved, he does accordingly save all such persons; wherefore blessed are they that trust in him. The Chaldee paraphrase is,

"he shall redeem them because they trust in his Word.''

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Don't Fret Because of Evildoers
…38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

1 Chronicles 5:20 They were helped in fighting them, and God delivered the Hagrites and all their allies into their hands, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.
Psalm 22:4 In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
Psalm 34:22 The LORD will rescue his servants; no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 46:5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
Psalm 54:4 Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.
Psalm 97:10 Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Isaiah 31:5 Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will 'pass over' it and will rescue it."
Jeremiah 15:21 "I will save you from the hands of the wicked and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel."
Daniel 3:17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand.
Daniel 6:16 So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!"
Daniel 6:23 The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
Nahum 1:7 The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,