Psalms 37:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 hypocrite [but] for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which 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 also [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 bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, 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; [then] understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt 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 all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 ¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 92:7
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    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 129:6
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    6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

  • Job 8:12
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    12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27 Therefore 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 corn] blasted before it be grown up.

  • Ps 37:1
    79%

    1 ¶ [A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    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 37:9-11
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    9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

    10 For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].

    11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

    8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

  • Prov 2:22
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    22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

  • Ps 37:38
    76%

    38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

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

  • Job 24:24
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    24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26 Therefore 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 corn] blasted before it be grown up.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

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

  • Isa 1:28-30
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    28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

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

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

  • Job 21:18
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    18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    34 ¶ Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].

    35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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    3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

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

  • Job 18:16
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    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Ps 72:6
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    6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24 ¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

  • Job 15:32
    73%

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

  • Ps 37:22
    73%

    22 For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 40:24
    73%

    24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • Ps 80:16
    73%

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

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.

  • Prov 27:25
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    25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

  • Ps 92:13-14
    2 verses
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    13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

    14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

  • Jer 17:8
    72%

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

  • Job 6:17
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    17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Isa 44:4
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    4 And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

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

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    17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.