Here are the same words from ESV (emphasis mine):ģ4 Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land you will look on when the wicked are cut off.35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree. As we read through the Psalm we come to verses 34–36, where 15 words in a row contain the letter resh, as seen highlighted below. The key word, occurring 13 times in this Psalm, is “wicked” or rāshāʿ, beginning with the letter R or resh (ר). The theme of Psalm 37 is the wicked and how the righteous should not worry when they seem to be doing well. One of these alphabetic Psalms makes another creative use of the alphabet. This is a feature which can aid memorisation but which is missing in translation. Verses 1–8 begin with aleph (א, the first letter), verses 9–16 begin with beth (ב, the second letter), and so on. The most striking case is the longest Psalm, number 119, which consists of 22 stanzas of eight verses beginning successively with each of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalms 9 and 10 roughly share the two halves of the alphabet between them and thus show their unity. They are acrostics with lines, verses or sections beginning successively with the letters of the alphabet (sometimes with small variations). A total of nine Psalms follow the structure of the Hebrew alphabet: 9, 10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119, 145.
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