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Psalm 37:6
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
4Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
6he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
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The noon day sun pictures justice made plain, touching the desire to have what is right seen when wrongdoing seems to prosper.
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Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the LORD’s glory will be …Both link righteousness with emerging light and describe the LORD acting on behalf of his people.
Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the LORD’s …Both connect righteousness with the LORD’s action: he makes it shine in the psalm and declares its source in Isaiah.
Job 11:17Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.Both use midday brightness to picture a changed condition, though Job’s line does not name righteousness or justice.
Micah 7:8–9Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.Both portray the LORD as the source of light, with Micah naming his help while the speaker sits in darkness.
Matthew 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.Both describe righteousness through the brightness of the sun; Matthew places the shining righteous in their Father’s Kingdom.
Isaiah 58:10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;Both picture light becoming as bright as midday; Isaiah connects that brightness with feeding the hungry and helping the afflicted.
Judges 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.Both use the sun’s brightness for God’s people, describing righteousness shining in the psalm and praying for strength in Judges.
Malachi 3:18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.Both describe righteousness becoming recognizable: shining like light in the psalm and distinguished from wickedness in Malachi.
Psalm 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.Both describe God acting for his people, though Psalm 37 speaks of visible justice and Psalm 31 of shelter from hostility.
Micah 7:9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the …Both connect God’s action for justice with coming into light; Micah also includes the speaker’s confession of sin.
Psalm 17:2Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.Both look to God for a just outcome, one as a promise and the other as a prayer for judgment.
Psalm 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.Both associate light with righteousness, describing righteousness shining in Psalm 37 and light dawning for the righteous in Psalm 112.
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The promise belongs with the call to trust and wait. God is the one who brings righteousness into the light, even when justice is still hard to see.
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