Psalms 37

Psalms 37:13

The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

The Lord, who takes notice of all his secret plots, shall laugh him to scorn; for, howsoever the foolish wicked man flatters himself in the conceit of his safety and stability of condition, yet the Allwise God sees that his destruction is at hand.

Psalms 37:20

They shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

They shall vanish away into smoke; as the fat of lambs, which is laid upon the altar in sacrifice, so shall they be suddenly consumed.

Psalms 37:25

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

In all my life-time, I have diligently observed the good hand, that God hath held over his righteous servants; whose provision for them I have noted to be wonderfully careful and gracious, so as the affliction of want hath not continued upon them, and been derived from them to their children: if they have been straitened with penury for the time, yet, it hath ere long been supplied either to themselves or theirs.

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

However it please God so to order the events of this life, that they fall out indifferently to the godly and wicked men, and perhaps the worst may speed better here than the holiest; yet, look to the end of both, and ye shall well observe a clear difference of God’s respects; for in the end, the godly man shall find a gracious retribution from the Lord his God, when the wicked man shall be everlastingly confounded.