Psalms 37:2

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For they will soon wither like grass and fade like green plants.

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  • Job 14:2 : 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 that the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless lasts only a moment? 6 Even if his greatness rises to the heavens and his head reaches to the clouds, 7 he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' 8 Like a dream he flies away and is no more; he is chased away like a vision of the night. 9 The eye that saw him will see him no longer, and his place will behold him no more.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree. 36 Yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched for him, he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Until I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny. 18 Surely, You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors! 20 Like a dream when one awakes, so, Lord, when You arise, You will despise their image.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning— 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:
  • Ps 129:5-7 : 5 Let all who hate Zion be shamed and turned back. 6 Let them be like grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

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    7A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:

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    6Let them be like grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

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    12While still in their greenness and not cut down, they wither more quickly than any grass.

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    27Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.

  • Ps 37:1
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    1Do not fret because of evildoers, and do not envy those who commit injustice.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning—

    6In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.

  • Ps 37:9-11
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    9For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD will inherit the land.

    10In a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

    11But the humble will inherit the land and delight in abundant peace.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

    8The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.

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    22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

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    38But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

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    11Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.

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    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

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    26Their inhabitants were powerless; they were dismayed and confounded. They were like plants of the field, tender grass, vegetation sprouting on the roofs, scorched before it can grow.

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    10and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

    11For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

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    20For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of the LORD will vanish like the splendor of the meadows; they will disappear like smoke.

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    4How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

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    28But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

    29You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

    30For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

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    18They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

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    32It will be fulfilled before his time, and his branch will not remain green.

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    22For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.

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