Psalms 92:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

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  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete! 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
  • Ps 37:38 : 38 Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.
  • 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,
  • Job 12:6 : 6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident– who carry their god in their hands.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 The Wicked Prosper“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power? 8 Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry. 11 They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about. 12 They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.
  • Ps 37:1-2 : 1 By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers! 2 For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil. 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
  • Ps 73:12 : 12 Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 LORD, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. Why are wicked people successful? Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? 2 You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
  • Luke 16:19-25 : 19 The Rich Man and Lazarus“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, 21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 “Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in Hades, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side. 24 So he called out,‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. 11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light. 37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. 38 After about ten days the LORD struck Nabal down and he died.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up; 6 in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.
  • Ps 94:4 : 4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Isa 37:27 : 27 Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
  • Isa 40:6-7 : 6 A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field. 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

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    1By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

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  • Prov 2:22
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    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

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    38Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

  • Ps 37:9-10
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    9Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

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    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

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    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

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    5Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)

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    8But you, O LORD, reign forever!

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    28When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

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    8for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

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    10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

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    3O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?

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    4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”

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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

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    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

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    28All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the LORD will perish.

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    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

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    4Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

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    34Rely on the LORD! Obey his commands! Then he will permit you to possess the land; you will see the demise of evil men.

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    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

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    25When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

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    11The household of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

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    8Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the LORD.

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    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.