Psalm 37:34 {36:34}
Good News Translation
Put your hope in the LORD and obey his commands; he will honor you by giving you the land, and you will see the wicked driven out.

New Revised Standard Version
Wait for the LORD, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Trust the LORD and follow him. He will give you the land, and you will see the wicked destroyed.

New American Bible
Wait eagerly for the LORD, and keep his way; He will raise you up to inherit the earth; you will see when the wicked are cut off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.

Wait.

Psalm 37:3,7,9 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. . . .

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Proverbs 20:22 Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.

keep

Job 17:9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 23:10-12 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire: . . .

Proverbs 4:25-27 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. . . .

Proverbs 16:17 The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

exalt

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Psalm 112:9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

when

Psalm 52:5,6 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living. . . .

Psalm 91:8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

Psalm 92:11 My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
33But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged. 34Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.35I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Libanus.…
Cross References
Psalm 18:21
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.

Psalm 27:14
Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

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

Psalm 52:5
Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Psalm 52:6
The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:

Psalm 91:8
But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

Proverbs 29:16
When the wicked are multiplied, crimes shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall.

Psalm 37:33
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