Psalms 37:38

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord,.... Both their temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation; particularly the latter, which is originally of the Lord, and springs from the thoughts,…

But the transgressors - Sinners; violators of the law of God. Shall be destroyed together - The word “together” here - יחדּו yachedâh - means properly “a union of them;” then, together - either: (a)…

The psalmist's conclusion of this sermon (for that is the nature of this poem) is of the same purport with the whole, and inculcates the same things.

I. The duty here pressed upon us is still the same…

But transgressors are destroyed together:

The posterity of the wicked is cut off.

Cp. Psa 37:37; Psa 109:13; Job 18:13-21. To the Israelite, with his strong sense of the continuity of life in the…