Psalms 92:7

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

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• Ps 73:18–20Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
• Ps 37:38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Ps 37:1–2Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• 1 Pet 1:24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• Jer 12:1–2Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Mal 3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
• Jas 1:10–11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Job 21:7–12Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Luke 16:19–25There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
• Isa 37:27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
• Ps 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
• Prov 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• Isa 40:6–7The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
• Ps 90:5–6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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