37:17 for evil men will lose their power, 1
but the Lord sustains 2 the godly.
37:28 For the Lord promotes 3 justice,
and never abandons 4 his faithful followers.
They are permanently secure, 5
but the children 6 of evil men are wiped out. 7
1 tn Heb “for the arms of the evil ones will be broken.”
2 tn The active participle here indicates this is characteristically true.
3 tn Heb “loves.” The verb “loves” is here metonymic; the
4 tn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to this generalizing statement.
5 tn Or “protected forever.”
6 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
7 tn Or “cut off”; or “removed.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 28b state general truths.