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 in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
• Ps 37:38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Ps 37:1–2By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
• 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;
• Jer 12:1–2You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Mal 3:15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Job 21:7–12“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• Luke 16:19–25“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Isa 37:27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
• Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
• Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
• Isa 40:6–7The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.

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