“But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.”
The psalmist declares 'But all sinners will be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.' The final declaration of the fate of sinners provides closure to the extended meditation. The promise that sinners will be destroyed and the wicked's future cut off affirms that wickedness has no permanence. This verse concludes with the finality of judgment on the wicked.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:38
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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