Psalms 37:2

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

For they are cut off speedily as grass, || And fade as the greenness of the tender grass.

YLT

For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

DBY

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

DRC36:2

For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

GNV

For they shall soone bee cut downe like grasse, and shall wither as the greene herbe.

JPS

For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

LXXE36:2

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י כֶ֭חָצִיר מְהֵרָ֣ה יִמָּ֑לוּ וּכְיֶ֥רֶק דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא יִבּוֹלֽוּן׃

LXX-Br36:2

Ὅτι ὡσεὶ χόρτος ταχὺ ἀποξηρανθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ λάχανα χλόης ταχὺ ἀποπεσοῦνται.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
• Psalms 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
• James 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So…
• Psalms 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
• Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
• Job 20:5–9the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen…
• 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Psalms 73:17–20until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end. Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors! Like one waking from a…
• Psalms 129:5–7May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

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