Psalm 37:28 {36:28}
Good News Translation
for the LORD loves what is right and does not abandon his faithful people. He protects them forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be driven out.

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his faithful ones. The righteous shall be kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD loves justice, and he won't ever desert his faithful people. He always protects them, but destroys the children of the wicked.

New American Bible
For the LORD loves justice and does not abandon the faithful. When the unjust are destroyed, and the offspring of the wicked cut off,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

loveth

Psalm 11:7 He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup. [8] For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

Psalm 45:6,7 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness. . . .

Psalm 99:4 And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 61:8 For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.

forsaketh

Psalm 37:25,40 I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread. . . .

Psalm 92:13-15 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. . . .

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Jeremiah 32:40,41 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me. . . .

John 5:24 Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.

John 6:39,40 Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day. . . .

John 10:28-30 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. . . .

John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.

1 Peter 1:5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

but

Psalm 21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Job 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Job 27:14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

Proverbs 2:22 My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

Isaiah 14:20,21 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever. . . .

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
27Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever. 28For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.29But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:10
And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

Psalm 11:7
He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup. [8] For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

Psalm 12:7
Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.

Psalm 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

Psalm 27:9
Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

Psalm 31:23
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

Psalm 33:5
He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Psalm 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Psalm 37:38
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 41:2
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

Psalm 50:5
Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

Psalm 94:14
For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

Psalm 109:13
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Proverbs 2:22
My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

Isaiah 14:20
Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

Isaiah 49:6
And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.

Psalm 37:27
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