Psalms 37:2
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- KJV
- For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- WEB
- For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
- ASV
- For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
- DARBY
- for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
- BLB
- For like the grass, soon they are cut off, and like the green of the herb they shall wither.
- ÅB
- For som gresset blir de snart avskåret,
og som grønne urter visner de bort. - OTB
- For de skal snart visne som gresset,
Og visne som grønne planter. - B1930
- For som gresset blir de hastig avskåret, og som grønne urter visner de bort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Read in contextPsalms 90:5–6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Read in contextJames 1:10–11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Read in contextPsalms 37:35–36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Read in contextJob 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Read in contextJob 20:5–9
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Read in contextPsalms 73:17–20
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Read in context1 Peter 1:24
For 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:
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