“Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.”
The psalmist advises 'Wait for the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land.' The exhortation to wait and keep God's way emphasizes patient obedience. The promise of exaltation and inheritance of the land suggests that God will ultimately establish the righteous in honor and security. This verse returns to the central promise: those who faithfully follow God will ultimately be established.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:34
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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