Psalms 37:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י כֶ֭חָצִיר מְהֵרָ֣ה יִמָּ֑לוּ וּכְיֶ֥רֶק דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא יִבּוֹלֽוּן׃

Transliteration

For like ḥāṣîr quickly they yimmālû, and like yereq dešeʾ they yibbôlûn.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ḥāṣîr*: masculine singular noun - grass/hay
*məhērâ*: adverb - quickly/speedily
*yimmālû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be cut down/wither
*yereq*: masculine singular construct - green thing of
*dešeʾ*: masculine singular noun - grass/vegetation
*yibbôlûn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural (paragogic nun) - they will wither/fade

Word Meanings

*ḥāṣîr*: grass/hay/herb
*yimmālû*: will be cut down/will wither/will fade
*yereq dešeʾ*: green grass/green herb/green vegetation
*yibbôlûn*: will wither/will fade/will fall away

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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:

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