Psalm 37 contrasts the wicked and the righteous, their way of life and destiny. Both receive a reward appropriate to their way of life. David writes this Psalm as encouragement, “fret not yourself because of evildoers…they will soon fade like the grass“. Instead we are to “Trust in the Lord, and do good… commit your way to the Lord…refrain from anger.“
The righteous have an inheritance, “evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land“; have little now “better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked“; but an eternal inheritance, “the Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever… but the wicked will perish“.
We have a refuge from the cares of this life, a God who can deliver us from anything the world does to us. “The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; he is their stronghold in the time of trouble… he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him“. Let us, like David, take refuge in God, looking forward to that eternal peace which is shortly to come.