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Beth

Trust in the Lord and do good
    that you may dwell in the land[a] and live secure.(A)
Find your delight in the Lord
    who will give you your heart’s desire.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 37:3 The land: the promised land, Israel, which became for later interpreters a type or figure of heaven, cf. Hb 11:9–10, 13–16. The New Testament Beatitudes (Mt 5:3–12; Lk 6:20–26) have been influenced by the Psalm, especially their total reversal of the present and their interpretation of the happy future as possession of the land.

Gimel

Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him and he will act(A)
And make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
    your justice like noonday.(B)

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Samekh

27 Turn from evil and do good,
    that you may be settled forever.(A)
28 For the Lord loves justice
    and does not abandon the faithful.

Ayin

When the unjust are destroyed,
    and the offspring of the wicked cut off,

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Taw

39 The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord,
    their refuge in a time of distress.(A)
40 The Lord helps and rescues them,
    rescues and saves them from the wicked,
    because they take refuge in him.

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