Psalms 37:7

David calls for restful, patient waiting on the Lord without fretting over those whose wicked schemes succeed. Quiet trust counters anxious comparison.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
• Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Ps 62:5My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
• Heb 10:36–37For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
• Prov 20:22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
• Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
• Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Ps 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
• Isa 30:15For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
• Ps 62:1Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
• Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Isa 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Josh 10:12Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
• Isa 10:13–14For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
• Eccl 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Dan 11:36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
• Job 21:7–34Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Ps 50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
• Jonah 1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
• Rev 13:3–10And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
• Ps 73:3–14For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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