Psalms 37 A Psalme of Dauid. Fret not thy self because of the vngodly: nether be thou enuyous agaynst the euell doers.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A Psalme of Dauid. Fret not thy self because of the vngodly: nether be thou enuyous agaynst the euell doers. ² For they shall soone be cut downe lyke the grasse, & be wythered euen as the grene herbe. ³ Put thou thy trust in the Lorde, & be doinge good: dwell in the lande, and verely thou shalt be fedd. ⁴ Delyte thou in the Lorde, & he shall geue the thy hertes desyre. ⁵ Commytte thy waye vnto the Lorde, & put thy trust in hym, & he shall brynge it to passe. ⁶ He shall make thy rightuousnesse as cleare as the light, & thy iust dealing as the noone daye. ⁷ Holde the styll in the Lorde, & abyde pacyently vpon him: but greue not thy selfe at hym, whose waye doth prospere agenst the man that doth after euell councels. ⁸ Leaue of from wrath, & let go displeasure, frett not thy self, els shalt thou be moued to do euell. ⁹ Wycked doers shalbe roted out: & they that paciently abyde the Lorde, those shall enheret the lande. ¹⁰ Yet a lytle whyle, & the vngodly shalbe clene gone: thou shalt loke after hys place, & he shalbe awaye. ¹¹ But the meke spreted shall possesse the earth, & shalbe refresshed in the multitude of peace. ¹² The vngodly seketh councell agaynst the iust, & gnassheth vpon hym with his tethe. ¹³ The Lord shall laughe hym to scorne, for he hath sene, that his daye is commynge. ¹⁴ The vngodly haue drawen out the swerde, and haue bended their bowe, to cast downe the poore and nedye, and to slaye soch as be of a ryght conuersacion. ¹⁵ Their swerde shall go thorow their awne herte, & their bowe shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Asinall thinge that the ryghtuous hath, is better then greate ryches of the vngodly. ¹⁷ For the armes of the vngodly shalbe broken, and the Lorde vpholdeth the ryghtuous. ¹⁸ The Lord knoweth the dayes of the godly, & their inheritaunce shall endure for euer. ¹⁹ They shall not be confounded in the perelous tyme, and in the dayes of derth they shall haue ynough. ²⁰ As for the vngodly, they shall peryshe: & the enemyes of the Lorde shall consume, as the fatt of lambes: yee, euen as the smoke shall they consume awaye. ²¹ The vngodly boroweth and payeth not agayne, but the rightuous is mercyfull & lyberall. ²² Soch as be blessed of God, shall possesse the lande, & they that be curssed of hym, shalbe roted out. ²³ The Lord ordreth a good mans goinge, & maketh his waye acceptable to him self. ²⁴ Though he fall, he shal not be cast awaye, for the Lord vpholdeth him with his hande. ²⁵ I haue bene yonge, and nowe am olde: & yet sawe I neuer the rightuous forsaken, ner his sede begginge theyr bread. ²⁶ The ryghtuous is euer mercyfull, and lendeth, and his sede is blessed. ²⁷ Fle from euell, and do the thynge that is good, and dwel for euer. ²⁸ For the Lorde loueth the thynge that is ryght, he forsaketh not hys that be godly, but they are preserued for euermore: ²⁹ as for the sede of the vngodly, it shalbe roted out. ³⁰ The ryghtuous shall inherett the lande, and dwell therin for euer. ³¹ The mouth of the ryghtuous is exercised in wysdome and his tonge wilbe talkyng of iudgement, ³² The lawe of his God is in his hert, and his goynges shall not slyde. ³³ The vngodly seeth the ryghtuous, & seketh occasyon to slaye hym. ³⁴ The Lorde wyll not leaue hym in hys hande, ner condempne him when he is iudged. ³⁵ Hope thou in the Lord, and kepe his waye, & he shal promote the, that thou shalt possesse the lande: when the vngodly shal perishe, thou shalt se it. ³⁶ I my selfe haue sene the vngodly in great power, & florishinge lyke a grene baye tree: ³⁷ & he vanished awaye, & lo, he was gone: I sought him, but coulde no where be found. ³⁸ Kepe innocency, and take hede vnto the thynge that is ryght, for that shall brynge a man peace at the last. ³⁹ As for the transgressours, they shall peryshe together, and the ende of the vngodly is, they shall be roted out at the last. But the saluacion of the ryghtuous commeth of the Lorde, which is also their strength in the tyme of trouble. ⁴⁰ And the Lorde shall stande by them, and saue them: he shall delyuer them from the vngodly, and shall saue them, because they put theyr trust in hym.