Psalms 37:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the triumph of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his greatness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, 7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night. 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.
  • 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 indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end. 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.
  • Ps 92:7 : 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.
  • 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 withers before it grows up: 7 With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds 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 will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

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  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.

  • Ps 129:6
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    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

  • Job 8:12
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    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Isa 37:27
    79%

    27Therefore 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 grain blighted before it is grown up.

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

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

    6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Ps 37:9-11
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    9For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

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

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

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

    8The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

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

  • Ps 37:38
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    38But the transgressors shall be destroyed altogether; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • Job 24:24
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    24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are removed out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.

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

    11For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

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

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

  • Isa 1:28-30
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    28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

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

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

  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    34Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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

  • Ps 37:3
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    3Trust in the LORD and do good; so you shall dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.

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

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

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

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • Job 15:32
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    32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

  • Ps 37:22
    73%

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 40:24
    73%

    24Indeed, 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.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before 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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    25The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

  • Ps 92:13-14
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    13Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

    14They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing,

  • Jer 17:8
    72%

    8For 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.

  • Job 6:17
    72%

    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

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

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before 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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    7Let them melt away as waters that run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be cut in pieces.

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