Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 37 connects to 10 cross-references. A lengthy alphabetic acrostic attributed to David urging against fretting at the prosperity of evildoers. It repeatedly encourages trusting in the Lord, delighting in him, and committing one's way to him. The meek will inherit the land while the wicked …
Other Translations
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
Cross References
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, …
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof …
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they …
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.