“For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.”
The psalmist observes 'A little while and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.' The phrase 'a little while' suggests that the period of wickedness's apparent dominance is brief in cosmic perspective. The promise that searching will not find them suggests their complete disappearance. This verse emphasizes the temporary nature of wickedness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:10
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
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