John MacArthur Reads Psalm 37 from the LSB
00:00:00.000 | So, for about a year, linguistic scholars of the Master's University and the Master's
00:00:05.420 | Seminary have been working on a translation called the Legacy Standard Bible.
00:00:12.600 | It's come to completion now.
00:00:14.960 | The first printed form of it is the New Testament Sums and Proverbs.
00:00:21.400 | It's the best English translation I have ever read.
00:00:28.920 | It's the most diligently prepared translation, and one of the wonderful features of it is
00:00:36.680 | it calls God by the name He asked to be remembered by.
00:00:47.600 | I want you just to listen, standing, to Psalm 37 from the living Word of God, the living
00:00:58.240 | Word of the eternal God, whose name is Yahweh.
00:01:05.600 | This is the Legacy Standard Bible translation, first time read publicly anyplace.
00:01:12.740 | Do not fret because of evildoers.
00:01:17.000 | Be not envious toward doers of unrighteousness, for they will wither quickly like the grass
00:01:22.580 | and fade like the green herb.
00:01:25.760 | Trust in Yahweh and do good.
00:01:29.720 | Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
00:01:32.700 | Delight yourself in Yahweh, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
00:01:38.180 | Commit your way to Yahweh.
00:01:39.980 | Trust in Him and He will do it.
00:01:41.740 | He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgment as the noonday.
00:01:47.920 | Be still in Yahweh and wait patiently for Him.
00:01:53.940 | Do not fret because of Him who prospers in His way, because of the man who carries out
00:01:59.800 | schemes of wickedness.
00:02:02.480 | Cease from anger and forsake wrath.
00:02:04.920 | Do not fret.
00:02:05.920 | It leads only to evildoing, for evildoers will be cut off.
00:02:12.000 | But those who hope for Yahweh, they will inherit the land, yet a little while, and the wicked
00:02:19.780 | man will be no more.
00:02:23.720 | He will look carefully at his place, and he will not be there.
00:02:28.940 | But the lowly will inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant peace.
00:02:34.320 | The wicked schemes against the righteous and gnashes at him with his teeth.
00:02:39.760 | The Lord laughs at him, for He sees that His day is coming.
00:02:45.220 | The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow to cast down the afflicted and the needy,
00:02:50.200 | to slay those who are upright in conduct.
00:02:53.880 | Their sword will enter their own heart, and their bows will be broken.
00:03:00.400 | Better is a little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
00:03:07.000 | For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but Yahweh sustains the righteous.
00:03:13.960 | Yahweh knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will be forever.
00:03:19.960 | They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine, they will be satisfied.
00:03:25.580 | But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the glory of the pastures.
00:03:31.880 | They vanish in smoke.
00:03:34.600 | They vanish away.
00:03:36.880 | The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives.
00:03:42.040 | For those blessed by Him will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut
00:03:46.960 | off.
00:03:49.560 | The footsteps of a man are established by Yahweh, and He delights in His way.
00:03:56.520 | When He falls, He will not be hurled headlong, because Yahweh is the one who sustains His
00:04:00.800 | hand.
00:04:02.040 | I was young, and now I am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or His seed
00:04:06.520 | begging bread.
00:04:08.640 | All day long He is gracious and lends, and His seed is a blessing.
00:04:14.080 | Depart from evil and do good, so you will dwell forever.
00:04:18.120 | For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake His holy ones; they are kept forever.
00:04:25.640 | But the seed of the wicked will be cut off.
00:04:29.680 | The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
00:04:33.160 | The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and His tongue speaks justice.
00:04:37.880 | The law of His God is in His heart.
00:04:41.720 | His steps do not slip.
00:04:44.240 | The wicked spies upon the righteous and seeks to put Him to death.
00:04:48.000 | Yahweh will not forsake Him in His hand; He will not condemn Him when He is judged.
00:04:55.760 | Hope for Yahweh and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land.
00:05:02.800 | But the wicked are cut off; you will see it.
00:05:07.200 | I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native
00:05:12.160 | soil.
00:05:13.160 | Then he passed away, and behold, he was no more.
00:05:16.480 | I sought for him, but he could not be found.
00:05:20.920 | Observe the blameless man, and behold the upright.
00:05:24.480 | For the man of peace will have a posterity, but transgressors will be altogether destroyed.
00:05:33.840 | The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.
00:05:37.960 | But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
00:05:41.600 | He is their strength in time of distress.
00:05:45.840 | Yahweh helps them and protects them.
00:05:50.040 | He protects them from the wicked and saves them because they take refuge in Him.
00:05:58.480 | Is that not a magnificent portion of Scripture?
00:06:03.800 | And did you feel the almost jarring reality of calling God by His name?
00:06:11.040 | He wants you to do that.
00:06:13.400 | It's that intimate.
00:06:15.320 | He wants you to call Him by His name.
00:06:20.540 | Jesus said, John 8:58, "Before Abraham was, I am."
00:06:31.080 | He was declaring His deity as the I Am.
00:06:35.440 | What does it mean that God's name is Yahweh, I Am that I Am?
00:06:40.120 | It expresses His eternality, the fact that He is uncreated, that He's the source of
00:06:44.960 | all life, that He is timeless, that He is unchangeable, that He is self-existent and
00:06:50.680 | self-sufficient.
00:06:53.920 | When you say "Lord," you're talking about His sovereignty.
00:06:57.960 | In all English Bibles, Yahweh is translated "Lord" in uppercase letters, but that just
00:07:03.760 | repeats "Adonai."
00:07:06.020 | It doesn't give you the name of God, which is the covenant name that expresses His eternal
00:07:10.800 | being.
00:07:14.000 | He wants you to know His name, and you say it all the time.
00:07:18.000 | Every time you say, "Hallelujah," you say, "Praise Yahweh."
00:07:27.440 | This translation, for that and a number of reasons, is a priceless treasure, amazing
00:07:38.120 | effort.
00:07:40.040 | And this is the first form of it, New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, the full Bible
00:07:43.960 | will be out later this year, but we're going to give these to every man at Shepherds Conference.
00:07:49.320 | And I know you want to get your hands on mine, but this is the only one I've got.
00:07:55.680 | (audience laughing)