W ‘For yet a little while, and the wicked will not be,
Yes, you will diligently consider his place, and he will not be.
But the meek will inherit the land,
And will delight themselves in the abundance of peace.'
For the time will certainly come when the unrighteous will wither and die, they will cease to be. Though such a man be sought for with great diligence, he will have vanished. He will have gone to face his judgment (consider the rich man in Luke 16:22-24).
But the ‘meek', those who are trusting God and refusing to be stirred to anger, will ‘inherit the land' (compare Matthew 5:5). They will delight themselves in an abundance of peace. Good will triumph because God will triumph. And those who are trusting in Him will receive the fullness of His promises and of His blessings.
The idea of ‘inheriting the land' had in mind God's promises to Abraham, that one day the land to which God had called him would one day belong to his seed (Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 12:7). And in the days of David and Solomon it did happen. The land was theirs from one end to the other. But the writer to the Hebrews reminds us that Abraham was not actually looking for that. He was actually looking for a better land than that. He did not seek a ‘continuing city' in this world, he sought one above, a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God (Hebrews 11:10). He looked for a better country, which is a heavenly. He looked for a city which God has provided for those who love Him (Hebrews 11:14). For in his heart he was looking for what this world could not offer. And there in that land there will indeed be an abundance of peace.