‏ Psalms 37:1

1 David persuades to patience and confidence in God, by the different estate of the godly and the wicked.

(Title.)This is the third alphabetical Psalm. It seems to have been intended as an instructive and consoling ode for the captives in Babylon, who might feel themselves severely tempted when they saw those idolaters in prosperity, and themselves in adversity.

Fret.

7; 1Sa 1:6-8; Pr 19:3; 24:1,19

neither.

73:3; Pr 3:31; 23:17; Ga 5:21; Jas 4:5,6

‏ Psalms 37:7

Rest in. Heb. Be silent to.

62:1; Jos 10:12; Jon 1:11; *margins

wait.

27:14; 40:1; Pr 20:22; Isa 8:17; 30:15; La 3:25,26; Hab 2:3; Ga 6:9

Heb 10:36,37; Jas 5:7-11

fret.

50:8; 73:3-14; Jer 12:1

the man.

Job 21:7-34; Ec 5:8; Isa 10:13,14; Da 11:36; Re 13:3-10

‏ Isaiah 8:21-22

through.

7,8

hardly bestead.

9:20; De 28:33,34,53-57; 2Ki 25:3; Jer 14:18; 52:6; La 4:4,5,9,10

they shall fret.

Pr 19:3

curse.

Ex 22:28; 2Ki 6:33; Job 1:11; 2:5,9; Re 9:20,21; 16:9-11

look.

5:30; 9:1; 2Ch 15:5,6; Jer 13:16; 30:6,7; Am 5:18-20; Zep 1:14,15

Mt 8:12; 24:29; Lu 21:25,26; Jude 1:13

driven to darkness.

Job 18:18; Pr 14:32; Jer 23:12; Mt 22:13

‏ Revelation of John 16:9-11

scorched. or, burned. blasphemed.

10,11,21; 2Ki 6:33; 2Ch 28:22; Isa 1:5; 8:21; Jer 5:3; 6:29,30

Eze 24:13

and they.

11; 2:21; 9:20; Da 5:22,23; Lu 13:3,5; 2Co 12:21

to give.

11:13; 14:7; Jos 7:19; Jer 13:6; Am 4:6-12

upon.

11:2,8; 13:2-4; 17:9,17; 18:2,21,23

full.

9:2; 18:11-19; Ex 10:21-23; Ps 78:49; Isa 8:21,22; Mt 8:12; 22:13

1Pe 2:17

they.

11:10; Mt 13:42,50; 24:51; Lu 13:28

blasphemed.

9,21

the God.

2Ch 36:23; Ezr 1:2; 5:11,12; 6:10; 7:12,21,23; Ne 1:4; 2:4; Ps 136:26

Da 2:18,19,44; Jon 1:9

because.

2,9

and repented not.

9; 2Ti 3:13
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