Discovery BoxPsalms 37:28 
Context37:28 For the Lord promotes 1 justice,
and never abandons 2 his faithful followers.
They are permanently secure, 3
but the children 4 of evil men are wiped out. 5
Psalms 37:39-40
Context37:39 But the Lord delivers the godly; 6
he protects them in times of trouble. 7
37:40 The Lord helps them and rescues them;
he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, 8
for they seek his protection.
1 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the
2 tn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to this generalizing statement.
3 tn Or “protected forever.”
4 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
5 tn Or “cut off”; or “removed.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 28b state general truths.
6 tn Heb “and the deliverance of the godly [ones] [is] from the
7 tn Heb “[he is] their place of refuge in a time of trouble.”
8 tn The prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry on the generalizing tone of the preceding verse.
