Psalms 37:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
  • Job 20:5-9 : 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, 7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?' 8 He shall fly away as 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 any more see him.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end. 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 129:5-7 : 5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; 7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 92:7
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    7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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

  • Job 8:12
    81%

    12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27Therefore their inhabitants had 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 a field before its crop has grown.

  • Ps 37:1
    79%

    1Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Ps 37:9-11
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    78%

    9For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

    10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

    11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

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

  • Prov 2:22
    77%

    22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

  • Ps 37:38
    76%

    38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Job 24:24
    76%

    24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
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    26Therefore their inhabitants were of small 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 blasted before it has grown up.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it 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. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • Isa 1:28-30
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    28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh 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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    18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    34Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

    35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

  • Ps 37:3
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    3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

  • 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 beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Ps 72:6
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    6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • Job 15:32
    73%

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

  • Ps 37:22
    73%

    22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Isa 40:24
    73%

    24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • Ps 80:16
    73%

    16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Prov 27:25
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    25The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

  • Ps 92:13-14
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    13They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

    14They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

  • Jer 17:8
    72%

    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Job 6:17
    72%

    17In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Isa 44:4
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    4and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

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

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • Ps 73:19
    71%

    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.