Psalms 37:29 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 37:29

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.

WEB

The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

YLT

The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

DBT

The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell therein for ever.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

14 verses on the floor

Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Proverbs 2:21
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Psalms 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
2 Peter 3:13
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God's essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked. The righteous described as to the elements of character, thought, word, and action.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), the land of Canaan, that glory of all lands. Our creature-comforts are comforts indeed to us when we see them flowing from the blessing of God, we are sure not to want any thing that is good for us in this world.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Words4

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The quotation web

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 37:29PSA 37:11 MAT 5:5
PSA 37:29PSA 37:9 ISA 60:21
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 37:292PE 3:13 ISA 65:17
PSA 37:29PSA 37:11 GAL 5:22-23
PSA 37:29PSA 37:11 ISA 26:3
PSA 37:292PE 3:13 REV 21:1
PSA 37:29PSA 37:11 JAS 3:13
PSA 37:292PE 3:13 ISA 66:22

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

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