Psalms 37:38

Amplified Bible

As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed; The future of the wicked will be cut off.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the transgressours shall be destroyed together, and the ende of the wicked shall bee cut off.

Christian Standard Bible®
But transgressors will all be eliminated;the future of the wicked will be destroyed.

Hebrew Names Version
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Easy-to-Read Version
But those who break the law will be destroyed completely. And their descendants will be forced to leave the land.

American Standard Version
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together: The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Contemporary English Version
But not a trace will be left of the wicked or their families.

Complete Jewish Bible
But transgressors will all be destroyed; the posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

King James Version (1611)
But the transgressours shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shalbe cut off.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the transgressors shall be utterly destroyed together: the remnants of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

English Revised Version
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together: the latter end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Berean Standard Bible
But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

Lexham English Bible
But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Literal Translation
But the transgressors are destroyed together; the end of the wicked is cut off.

New Century Version
But sinners will be destroyed; in the end the wicked will die.

New English Translation
Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

New King James Version
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

New Living Translation
But the rebellious will be destroyed; they have no future.

New Life Bible
But all the sinners will be destroyed. The family of the sinful will be cut off.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, transgressors, are to be destroyed together, the hereafter of lawless men, is to be cut off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-38) But the unjust shall be destroyed to gether: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

George Lamsa Translation
But sinners shall be destroyed together; yea, the end of the wicked shall be destruction.

Good News Translation
but sinners are completely destroyed, and their descendants are wiped out.

New American Standard Bible
But wrongdoers will altogether be destroyed; The future of the wicked will be eliminated.

King James Version
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for wicked transgressours, they shalbe destroyed [all] together: and the ende of the vngodly shalbe rooted vp at the last.

New Revised Standard
But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

Darby Translation
but the transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe vniust men schulen perische; the relifs of wickid men schulen perische togidere.

Young's Literal Translation
And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

World English Bible
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Revised Standard Version
But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

Update Bible Version
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Bible in Basic English
But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe innocency, and take hede vnto the thinge that is right, for that shall brynge a man peace at the last.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But transgressors will be altogether destroyed; The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

Legacy Standard Bible
But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

Contextual Overview

³⁴Wait for and expect the LORD and keep His way, And He will exalt you to inherit the land; [In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it. ³⁵I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power] Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil, ³⁶Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more; I sought him, but he could not be found. ³⁷Mark the blameless man [who is spiritually complete], and behold the upright [who walks in moral integrity]; There is a [good] future for the man of peace [because a life of honor blesses one's descendants]. ³⁸As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed; The future of the wicked will be cut off.³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their refuge and stronghold in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰The LORD helps them and rescues them; He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 1:4-6, Psalms 9:17, Psalms 52:5, Proverbs 14:32, Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:49, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 25:46, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

Reciprocal: Psalms 73:17 - then Psalms 92:7 - wicked Psalms 104:35 - sinners Proverbs 2:22 - the wicked Isaiah 1:28 - the destruction Romans 6:22 - and the end

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together,.... This is to be understood of obstinate and continued transgressors, who live and die in their transgressions; see Proverbs 11:3; otherwise all men are transgressors in Adam, and sinned and fell with him in his transgression; and are justly called transgressors from the womb; and are guilty of actual transgressions, nor are any clear from them; and are arraigned, convinced, and judged by the law as transgressors; and for many of these Christ died, and makes intercession; and who are converted, and turned from their transgressions; and these are pardoned, and saved, and not destroyed: but stubborn and perverse transgressors are destroyed; not only with a temporal destruction of their substance, and of their names, and they themselves are rooted out of the earth; but with an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power; for this seems to refer to the day of judgment, when all the wicked will be "together"; and shall in a body stand at Christ's left hand, and be bid to go, "ye cursed into everlasting fire", Matthew 25:41, and shall be turned into hell at once, and together;

the end of the wicked shall be cut off; meaning either their posterity, as the word is rendered in Psalms 109:13; or their hope and expectation of good things here and hereafter; when the righteous man receives the end of his faith, hope, and expectation, even the salvation of his soul; but these shall be disappointed and frustrated of their end; see

Proverbs 23:18; or their last end is cutting off from the presence and sight of God, utter ruin and destruction; and so it stands opposed to the end of the perfect and upright man, which is eternal peace and happiness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the transgressors - Sinners; violators of the law of God.

Shall be destroyed together - The word “together” here - יחדּו yach^edâh - means properly “a union of them;” then, together - either:

(a) in one place, Genesis 13:6 - or

(b) at one time, Psalms 4:8; or

(c) all as one, Psalms 14:3 - or

(d) mutually with one another, as when men strive together, Deuteronomy 25:11.

The idea here is, that one would be destroyed as well as another; that there would be no exception; that they would go to the same ruin. They might be destroyed at different times, or in different modes, but it would be the same destruction in the end.

The end of the wicked - The future of the wicked. The same word is used here which occurs in Psalms 37:37, as applied to the righteous. The meaning is, that while the “future” of the one would be peace, the future of the other would be a “cutting off,” or destruction.

Shall be cut off - That is, they shall be cut off; or, there will be a cutting off. This means here, evidently:

(a) that as an ordinary fact they would be cut down before they had reached the full limit of their course, Psalms 37:35-36;

(b) in the future world they would be cut off from hope and happiness forever.