Psalms 37:40

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
help	וַֽיַּעְזְרֵ֥ם vai.ya'.ze.Rem	H5826	to surround · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
deliver	וַֽיְפַ֫לְּטֵ֥ם vay.Fa.le.Tem	H6403	to slip out · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
deliver	יְפַלְּטֵ֣ם ye.fa.le.Tem	H6403	to slip out · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
wicked	מֵ֭רְשָׁעִים Me.re.sha.'im	H7563	morally wrong · preposition + noun, common masculine plural absolute
save	וְיוֹשִׁיעֵ֑ם ve.yo.shi.'Em	H3467	properly · conjunction + verb, hiphil, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
trust	חָ֥סוּ Cha.su	H2620	to flee for protection · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in t…
Daniel 3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Isaiah 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver…
Daniel 3:28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his serv…
Daniel 6:23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the de…
Psalms 22:4-5 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:34–end

The psalmist's conclusion of this sermon (for that is the nature of this poem) is of the same purport with the whole, and inculcates the same things. I. The duty here pressed upon us is still the same (Psa 37:34): Wait on the Lord and keep his way. Duty is ours, and we must mind it and make conscience of it, keep God's way and never turn out of it nor loiter in it, keep close, keep going; but events are God's and we must refer ourselves to him for the disposal of them; we must wait on the Lord, attend the motions of his providence, carefully observe them, and conscientiously accommodate ourselves to them. If we make conscience of keeping God's way, we may with cheerfulness wait on him and co…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 37:39

strength-- (Psa 27:1; Psa 28:8). trouble--straits (Psa 9:9; Psa 10:1). In trust and quietness is the salvation of the pious from all foes and all their devices. Next: Psalms Chapter 38

John Gill on Psalms 37:40

And the Lord shall help them,.... In their distress, and out of their troubles, when none else can, and they themselves cannot; and that seasonably, and sometimes with means, and sometimes without; and deliver them; out of all their afflictions, which he does sooner or later; if not in life, yet at death; he shall deliver them from the wicked; this is repeated both for confirmation and explanation sake, showing who they are the Lord will deliver his people from, even from wicked and unreasonable men; he will not leave them in their hands now to do with them as they shall think fit; and he will free them from them to all eternity in the other world, where they shall cease from giving them a…

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John Calvin on Psalms 37:37–end

Psalm 37:37-40 37. Observe the perfect man, and consider the just for the end of that man is peace. 38. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39. The salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40. Jehovah shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked: he shall preserve them, because they trust in him. 37 Observe the perfect man David exhorts the faithful diligently to consider every instance they may meet with of the grace of God, as well as of his judgment; but he teaches, at the same time, that it is in vain for any to sit in judgment upon the first aspect of thin…

The Church Fathers

Those who practice righteousness … will enjoy divine aid and attain salvation, and by reason of placing complete hope in him, they will prevail over those endeavoring to wrong them.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 37:14

Free to Hope. Cassiodorus: He also adds the reason for the liberation: it is because "they have hoped in him"—not because they have not sinned, but because they have placed their hope in the Lord's compassion. This can also be applied to the judgment, when he will deign to present an eternal reward to his saints.
— Cassiodorus, EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 37:40

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Faith · ENJOINE — ENJOINE

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 37:40

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:34–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 37:39

John Gill on Psalms 37:40

John Calvin on Psalms 37:37–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 37:40

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:34–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 37:39

John Gill on Psalms 37:40

John Calvin on Psalms 37:37–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 37:39–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 37:39-40

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 37:40