Psalms 92:7

Though the wicked flourish like grass, they are destined for eternal destruction. Present prosperity of evildoers is fleeting and deceptive.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
• Ps 37:38But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
• Ps 37:1–2Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Mal 3:15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
• Jas 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
• Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
• Job 21:7–12Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
• Luke 16:19–25Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Isa 37:27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
• Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
• Prov 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
• Isa 40:6–7A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
• Ps 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• 1 Sam 25:36–38When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

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