Psalm 37:38 {36:38}
Good News Translation
but sinners are completely destroyed, and their descendants are wiped out.

New Revised Standard Version
But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

Contemporary English Version
But not a trace will be left of the wicked or their families.

New American Bible
Sinners will be destroyed together; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 1:4-6 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. . . .

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 52:5 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Matthew 13:30,49,50 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. . . .

Matthew 25:46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
37Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man. 38But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.39But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.…
Cross References
Psalm 1:4
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Psalm 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

Psalm 37:20
Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 73:17
Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

Psalm 92:7
When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Psalm 145:20
The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Proverbs 2:22
My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

Psalm 37:37
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