Shall inherit the earth - ארץ arets the land, as before. See Psalm 37:11.

Shall be cut off - A wicked Jew shall meet with the same fate as a wicked Babylonian; and a wicked Christian shall fare no better.

Blessed

Psalm 37:11,18 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace...

Psalm 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 115:15 You are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 128:1 Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.

Proverbs 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.

cursed

Psalm 119:21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from your commandments.

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire...

1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

Galatians 3:10,13 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written...

cut off

Psalm 37:9,28 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth...

Zechariah 5:3,4 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth...

April 24. "Fret not Thyself in any Wise" (Ps. xxxvii. 8).
"Fret not thyself in any wise" (Ps. xxxvii. 8). A life was lost in Israel because a pair of human hands were laid unbidden upon the ark of God. They were placed upon it with the best intent to steady it when trembling and shaking as the oxen drew it along the rough way, but they touched God's work presumptuously, and they fell paralyzed and lifeless. Much of the life of faith consists in letting things alone. If we wholly trust an interest to God we can keep our hands off it, and He will guard it …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Christian Devotion to God's Will.
I into God's own heart and mind My heart and mind deliver, What evil seems, a gain I find, E'en death is life for ever. I am His son, Who spread the throne Of heaven high above me. Tho' I bend low Beneath His blow, Yet still His heart doth love me. He ne'er can prove untrue to me, My Father aye must love me, And tho' He cast me in the sea, He only thus would prove me; In what He good Doth count, He would My heart establish ever. And if I stand, His mighty hand Will raise me, and deliver. Vain had …
Paul Gerhardt—Paul GerhardtÆs Spiritual Songs

Biographical Sketch.
Paul Gerhardt was born in Graefenhainichen in Electoral Saxony, where his father, Christian Gerhardt, was Burgomaster. There is some doubt as to the precise year of his birth, owing to the destruction of the church books when the place was burnt by the Swedes on the 16th of April, 1637. According to some, the event took place in the year 1606; according to others, in 1607. The probability is in favour of the former date, for General Superintendent Goltlob Stolze, of Luebben,[1] says that he died, …
Paul Gerhardt—Paul GerhardtÆs Spiritual Songs