37-38 Keep your eye on the healthy soul,
    scrutinize the straight life;
There’s a future
    in strenuous wholeness.
But the willful will soon be discarded;
    insolent souls are on a dead-end street.

39-40 The spacious, free life is from God,
    it’s also protected and safe.
God-strengthened, we’re delivered from evil—
    when we run to him, he saves us.

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38 But all sinners(A) will be destroyed;(B)
    there will be no future[a] for the wicked.(C)

39 The salvation(D) of the righteous comes from the Lord;
    he is their stronghold in time of trouble.(E)
40 The Lord helps(F) them and delivers(G) them;
    he delivers them from the wicked and saves(H) them,
    because they take refuge(I) in him.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:38 Or posterity