Psalms 37:2
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 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 evil-doers 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;
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7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
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6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
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5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
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9 For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
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22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
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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.
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16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
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17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;
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19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.