Psalms 37:40
And the Lord will help them and deliver them : and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
39But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.
Cross References
Psalms 17:13Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one: thy sword
Psalms 27:2Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.
Proverbs 20:22Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee.
Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
Daniel 3:28Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the king's word, and delivered up their bodies that they might not serve, nor adore any god, except their own God.
1 John 2:13I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him, who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:35-40
Exhortations and Promises. 34 Wait on the Lord , and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: 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… Read the whole commentary →