Psalms 37:29

29. Dwell therein for ever לעד , ( la’adh,) to eternity; Septuagint, εις , αιωνα αιωνος , for ever and ever; Vulgate, ad seculum seculi, for ever and ever. See also le’olam, to eternity, Psalms 37:18. It is no objection to the argument of duration that in Psalms 37:29 the righteous are said to “inherit the land” for ever, and that in Psalms 37:27, “dwell,” inhabit, has the same primary reference, for these are common Hebraistic forms for setting forth not only great prosperity, but eternal blessedness, of which the earthly abiding in the promised land was accepted as an earnest. So our Lord says, “The meek shall inherit the earth,” using the temporal as the earnest and pledge of the eternal. Matthew 5:5, compare Genesis 17:8. The above words always take the sense of endless duration, where, as here, the subject and scope allow it.