Psalms 37:2

American Standard Version (1901)

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
  • Ps 129:5-7 : 5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up; 7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

  • Ps 129:6
    83%

    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

  • Job 8:12
    81%

    12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • Isa 37:27
    79%

    27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.

  • Ps 37:1
    79%

    1[[ A Psalm] of David]. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Ps 37:9-11
    3 verses
    78%

    9For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.

    10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.

    11But the meek shall inherit the land, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

  • Isa 40:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

    8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

  • Ps 37:38
    76%

    38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Job 24:24
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    24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    75%

    10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • Isa 1:28-30
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    28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

    29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

    30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • Job 21:18
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    18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    34Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt thee to inherit the land: When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

    35I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

  • Ps 37:3
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    3Trust in Jehovah, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on [his] faithfulness.

  • Ps 103:15
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    15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Job 18:16
    74%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Ps 72:6
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    6He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    73%

    24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • Job 15:32
    73%

    32It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

  • Ps 37:22
    73%

    22For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 40:24
    73%

    24Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

  • Ps 80:16
    73%

    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

  • Prov 27:25
    73%

    25The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.

  • Ps 92:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God.

    14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green:

  • Jer 17:8
    72%

    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Job 6:17
    72%

    17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Isa 44:4
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    4and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.