Psalm 37:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

New Living Translation
For the wicked will be destroyed, but those who trust in the LORD will possess the land.

English Standard Version
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

Berean Study Bible
For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

New American Standard Bible
For evildoers will be eliminated, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

NASB 1995
For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

NASB 1977
For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

Amplified Bible
For those who do evil will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

Christian Standard Bible
For evildoers will be destroyed, but those who put their hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For evildoers will be destroyed, but those who put their hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Contemporary English Version
All sinners will disappear, but if you trust the LORD, the land will be yours.

Good News Translation
Those who trust in the LORD will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Evildoers will be cut off [from their inheritance], but those who wait with hope for the LORD will inherit the land.

International Standard Version
Those who do evil will perish. But those who wait on the LORD will inherit the land.

NET Bible
Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

New King James Version
For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the LORD, They shall inherit the earth.

King James 2000 Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

New Heart English Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

World English Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

American King James Version
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

American Standard Version
For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.

A Faithful Version
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

English Revised Version
For evil-doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For euill doers shalbe cut off, and they that wait vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the land.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For the malitious doers shalbe rooted out: and they that paciently wayte after God, they shall inherite the lande.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For wicked doers shal be roted out, but they that pacietly abyde the LORDE, shal enheret the londe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For evildoers are cut off, "" As for those waiting on YHWH, they possess the land.

Young's Literal Translation
For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.

Smith's Literal Translation
For they doing evil shall be cut off: and they waiting for Jehovah they shall inherit the earth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the evildoers shall be cut off : but they that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For those who are malicious will be exterminated. But those who remain with the Lord, these will inherit the land.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because the wicked are destroyed and those who hope in LORD JEHOVAH inherit the Earth.

Lamsa Bible
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those who trust in the LORD shall inherit the earth.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for the LORD, they shall inherit the land.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
















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