Psalm 37:29 {36:29}
Good News Translation
The righteous will possess the land and live in it forever.

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Contemporary English Version
God's people will own the land and live here forever.

New American Bible
The righteous will inherit the earth and dwell in it forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.

Psalm 37:9,11,18,27 For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land. . . .

Deuteronomy 30:20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

Proverbs 2:21 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

2 Peter 3:13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 21:3,4,7 And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God. . . .

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
28For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish. 29But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for evermore.30The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.…
Cross References
Psalm 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Psalm 37:18
The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Psalm 69:36
And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Proverbs 2:21
But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.

Proverbs 10:30
The mouth of the just shall bring forth wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.

Psalm 37:28
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