Psalms 1:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

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  • Job 21:18 : 18 They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 Moreover, the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yes, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

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  • Ps 1:5-6
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    5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

  • 18 They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

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    3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.

  • 25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

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    1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

  • 24 Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, 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.

  • 7 When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.

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    29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

    30 The righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

  • 7 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

  • 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

  • 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

  • 10 For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; yes, you shall look for his place, and it shall not be.

  • 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Ps 37:1-2
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    1 Do not worry because of evildoers, nor be envious of those who work iniquity.

    2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • 3 A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

  • 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors will be rooted out of it.

  • 19 Do not fret because of evil men, neither be envious of the wicked.

  • 16 Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

  • 12 While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • 6 Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • 12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

  • 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • 8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

  • 32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • 18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • 29 The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain, for the wicked are not removed.

  • 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, nor cease from yielding fruit.

  • 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed altogether; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed on earth, much more the wicked and the sinner.

  • 19 The evil will bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • 4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • 3 The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish, but He casts away the substance of the wicked.

  • 3 For the scepter of the wicked shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous extend their hands to wrongdoing.

  • 6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • 5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • 10 The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

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

  • 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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