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Psalms 37:27

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Depart from evil, and do good,.... Depart from evildoers, and their evil ways; join not with them, nor fret and be envious at them; but do acts of beneficence, and all good works; since righteous men, and their seed, are not forsaken, but blessed of God;

[See comments on Psalms 34:14];

and dwell for evermore; or "thou shalt dwell for evermore" (z); see

Psalms 37:3; that is, in everlasting habitations, in the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, Lu 16:9. The Targum is, "that thou mayest dwell in everlasting life".

(z) ושכן לעולם "et habitabis in seculum", Pagninus, Vatablus, Piscator; so Aben Ezra & Kimchi.

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