For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Parallel translations
- KJV For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- BSB For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- NKJV For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
- NASB For they will wither quickly like the grass, And decay like the green plants.
- NLT For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
- Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
- Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
- Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
- Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
- Job 20:5–9that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Ps 73:17–20Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
- 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- Ps 129:5–7Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
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