Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalms 37:2 in other translations
| BSB | For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade. |
| DARBY | for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb. |
| BBE | For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants. |
| Webster | For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. |
What does Psalms 37:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 37:1-2
Psa 37:1-40. A composed and uniform trust in God and a constant course of integrity are urged in view of the blessedness of the truly pious, contrasted in various aspects with the final ruin of the wicked. Thus the wisdom and justice of God's providence are vindicated, and its seeming inequalities, which excite the cavils of the wicked and the distrust of the pious, are explained. David's personal history abundantly…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 37:1-6
David persuades to patience and confidence in God, by the state of the godly and of the wicked. Verses 1-6 When we look abroad we see the world full of evil-doers, that flourish and live in ease. So it was seen of old, therefore let us not marvel at the matter. We are tempted to fret at this, to think them the only happy people, and so we are prone to do like them: but this we are warned against. Outward prosperity…
Psalms 37:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 37:2
- 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:
- Psalms 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. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
- Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Job 20:5-9
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. …
- Psalms 73:17-20
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- 1 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:
- Psalms 129:5-7
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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Context
- Psalms 37:1
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Psalms 37:3
Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Psalms 37:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque como hierba serán presto cortados, y decaerán como verdor de renuevo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car bientôt, comme l’herbe, ils seront fauchés, et, comme l’herbe verte, ils se faneront. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn wie das Gras werden sie schnell vergehen, und wie das grüne Kraut verwelken. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me: |