Psalms 37:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? 6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
  • Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers. 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Ps 129:5-7 : 5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back. 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Ps 129:6
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    6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • Job 8:12
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    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Isa 37:27
    79%

    27This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • Ps 37:1
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    1<Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Ps 37:9-11
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    9For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

    10For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

    11But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

    8The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

  • Ps 37:38
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    38But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Job 24:24
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    24For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Isa 1:28-30
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    28But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

    30For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • Job 21:18
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    18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    34Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

    35I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

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    3Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

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    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

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    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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    6May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • Job 15:32
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    32His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

  • Ps 80:16
    73%

    16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Prov 27:25
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    25The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

  • Ps 92:13-14
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    13Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

    14They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • Job 6:17
    72%

    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • Isa 44:4
    72%

    4And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

  • Job 14:8
    72%

    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.