Psalms 92:7

World English Bible (2000)

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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  • Ps 73:18-20 : 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 37:38 : 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • 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;
  • Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? 8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
  • Ps 37:1-2 : 1 Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
  • 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 73:12 : 12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Luke 16:19-25 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.' 25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
  • 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 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
  • 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 94:4 : 4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
  • Prov 1:32 : 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Isa 37:27 : 27 Therefore 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.
  • Isa 40:6-7 : 6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:1-2
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    1 Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

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

  • Prov 2:22
    78%

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

  • Ps 37:38
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    38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Ps 37:9-10
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    9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

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

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    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 129:6
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    6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

  • Job 8:12
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    12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

    30 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

  • Ps 52:5
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    5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

  • Ps 92:8-9
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    8 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.

    9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

  • Prov 28:28
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    28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

  • Ps 12:8
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    8 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Ps 94:3-4
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    3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

    4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4 How 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 9:18
    74%

    18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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

  • Job 4:20
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    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Isa 1:28
    74%

    28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

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

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

  • Ps 1:4-6
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    4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

    5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

    6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

  • Ps 36:12
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    12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. By David.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

  • Prov 29:16
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    16 When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

  • Ps 92:13
    73%

    13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Ps 37:34-35
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    73%

    34 Wait 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.

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

  • Job 21:30
    73%

    30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Prov 10:25
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    25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

  • Job 24:24
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    24 They 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.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Job 21:7
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    7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

  • Job 31:3
    73%

    3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • Ps 62:3
    73%

    3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

  • Prov 14:11
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    11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Job 18:16
    73%

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Job 21:18
    72%

    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Ps 101:8
    72%

    8 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

  • Isa 37:27
    72%

    27 Therefore 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.