Psalms 37:1
A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath day. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
In Context
2O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, 1 Neither chasten me in thine anger. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.
Psalms 37:7I have been wretched and bowed down continually: 1 I went with a mourning countenance all the day. 1
Proverbs 3:31Procure not the reproaches of bad men, 1 Neither do thou covet their ways. 1
Proverbs 23:17Let not thy heart envy sinners: 1 But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day. 1
Proverbs 24:19Rejoice not in evildoers, 1 Neither be envious of sinners. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 37:1
This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversation; there is nothing in it of prayer or praise, but it is all instruction; it is "Maschil—a teaching psalm;" it is an exposition of some of the hardest chapters in the book of Providence, the advancement of the wicked and the disgrace of the righteous, a solution of the difficulties that arise thereupon, and an exhortation to conduct ourselves as becomes us under such dark… Read the whole commentary →