Psalms 37:1-2
He Will Not Forsake His Saints
▼▼This psalm is an acrostic poem, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet Of David.
1 bFret not yourself because of evildoers;be not cenvious of wrongdoers!
2For they will soon dfade like ethe grass
and wither flike the green herb.
Psalms 37:35
35 gI have seen a wicked, ruthless man,spreading himself like ha green laurel tree. ▼
▼The identity of this tree is uncertain
Psalms 37:38
38But jtransgressors shall be altogether destroyed;the future of the wicked kshall be cut off.
Psalms 90:5-6
5 You lsweep them away as with a flood; they are like ma dream,like ngrass that is renewed in the morning:
6in othe morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it pfades and qwithers.
Psalms 103:15-16
15 As for man, his days are like rgrass;he flourishes like sa flower of the field;
16for tthe wind passes over it, and uit is gone,
and vits place knows it no more.
Isaiah 37:27
27while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted ▼
▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts like a field
before it is grown.Isaiah 40:6-7
The Word of God Stands Forever
6 A voice says, “Cry!”And I said, ▼
▼Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
“What shall I cry?”yAll flesh is grass,
and all its beauty ▼
▼Or all its constancy
is like the flower of the field.7The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
James 1:10-11
10and aathe rich in his humiliation, because ablike a flower of the grass ▼▼Or a wild flower
he will pass away. 11For the sun rises with its scorching heat and adwithers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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