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Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
Psalms 37:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
  • KJV For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
  • NKJV For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, But it shall be no more.
  • NASB Yet a little while and the wicked person will be no more; And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.
  • NLT Soon the wicked will disappear. Though you look for them, they will be gone.

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Quick answer

In a little while the wicked will be gone, their place empty when you look for them. Evil's apparent permanence is an illusion.

Overview

David assures that the wicked, however imposing now, will soon vanish so completely that their place cannot be found. The phrase 'yet a little while' counsels patience grounded in certainty. This temporary nature of evil and its perpetrators is finally guaranteed by God's judgment, secured in the triumph of Christ over all that opposes His kingdom.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Job 24:24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
  • Ps 107:42–43The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
  • Ps 103:16when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
  • 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
  • Ps 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
  • Ps 58:10–11The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
  • Heb 10:36–37You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
  • Job 7:10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
  • Job 20:8–9He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
  • Luke 16:27–28‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,
  • Luke 12:20–21But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
  • Rev 6:10–11And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
  • Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
  • Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
  • Isa 14:16–19Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
  • Ps 49:10For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
  • 2 Kgs 9:25And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
  • 2 Kgs 9:34–37Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
  • Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
  • Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
  • 1 Sam 25:38–39About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 37:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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