The righteous will never be shaken, But the wicked will not live in the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
- KJV The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
- BSB The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
- NKJV The righteous will never be removed, But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.
- NLT The godly will never be disturbed, but the wicked will be removed from the land.
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Quick answer
The righteous will remain secure, but the wicked will not endure in the land. Stability belongs to those who live rightly before God.
Overview
Drawing on covenant language about dwelling in the promised land, this proverb affirms the lasting security of the righteous and the displacement of the wicked. It speaks to God's just ordering of life, even if its full realization awaits the age to come. Jesus' promise that the meek will inherit the earth fulfills this hope of an enduring place for God's people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
- Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
- Ps 37:28–29For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Ps 37:9–10For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
- Prov 2:21–22For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
- Prov 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
- Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- 2 Pet 1:10–11Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
- Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Ps 112:6For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
- Matt 21:41They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
- Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Mic 2:9–10You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
- Ezek 33:24–26Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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