Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
Holman Bible
and dwell in it permanently.
International Standard Version
The righteous will inherit the land, and they will dwell in it forever.
A Conservative Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.
American Standard Version
The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.
Amplified
The righteous will inherit the land
And live in it forever.
Bible in Basic English
The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
Darby Translation
The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell therein for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
The just shall inherit the earth, and they shall dwell upon it forever.
King James 2000
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] righteous will possess [the] land and abide in it forever.
Modern King James verseion
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.
NET Bible
The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.
New Heart English Bible
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
The Emphasized Bible
The righteous, shall inherit the earth, that they may settle down, to futurity, thereupon.
Webster
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
World English Bible
The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
Themes
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 37:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instruction In Wisdom
28 For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off. 29 The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it. 30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:21
For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
Psalm 37:9
For evil doers are cut off, As to those waiting on Jehovah, they possess the land.
Psalm 37:18
Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is -- to the age.
Deuteronomy 30:20
to love Jehovah thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave to Him (for He is thy life, and the length of thy days), to dwell on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.'
Psalm 37:11
And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.
Psalm 37:27
Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.
2 Peter 3:13
and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;
Revelation 21:3-4
and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, 'Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,
Revelation 21:7
he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,