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Psalms 37:8 — King James Version← Study notes

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.


Psalms 37:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 37:88 words
HebrewMeaning
הֶ֣רֶףherep
refrainverbH7503
cease · consume · draw · fail ···
מֵ֭/אַףmēʾap
from angerpronH639
before · countenance · face · forebearing ···
וַ/עֲזֹ֣בwaʿăzōb
and forsakeconjH5800
fail · forsake · fortify · help ···
חֵמָ֑הḥēmāh
ragenounH2534
bottles · hot displeasure · furious(-ly · -ry) ···
אַלʾal
may notparticleH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
תִּ֝תְחַ֗רtitəḥar
you fret yourselfverbH2734
burn · be displeased · earnestly · fret self ···
אַךְʾakə
onlyparticleH389
in any wise · at least · but · certainly ···
לְ/הָרֵֽעַləhārēʿa
to do evilpronH7489
associate selves (by mistake for
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 37:8

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 37 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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