Jack Gutknecht Supporter Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

Psalms 37:3-4
37:3 "Trust in the Lord and do what is right!

Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!" 

37:4 "Then you will take delight in the Lord, 

and he will answer your prayers." (NET)

Following the imperatives of Ps 37:3 the prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) in Ps 37:4 indicate result. Faith and obedience (Ps 37:3) will bring divine blessing (Ps 37:4).

Or “and he will give you what you desire most.” Heb “and he will grant to you the requests of your heart.”

Strong's Concordance
anog: to be soft, delicate, dainty
Original Word: עָנַג BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs) says "delight" in Psalm 37:4 means to "take exquisite delight."

Delight in the person of God (BibleHub and NetBible Xref)
Isaiah 61:10 KJV--
"I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."

See also (BibleHub and NetBible Xref):
Psalm 37:4; Psalm 43:3-4; 
Isaiah 58:13-14

It is incumbent upon us as Christians to tell of our source of joy, as the Living Bible has it: TLB--
"Let me tell you how happy God has made me! For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and draped about me the robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit or a bride with her jewels."

ISBE says this about the term, "delight," or "to delight one's self" (in the Lord) is represented chiefly by `anagh [עָנַג ] (Job 22:26; 27:10; Ps 37:4,11; Isa 58:14 ).

"O Lord, I will delight in Thee
And on Thy care depend,
To Thee in every trouble flee,
My best, my only Friend." --John Ryland (1777)

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