Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Are exalted
Cut off
Bible References
Are exalted
Job 20:5
The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
Psalm 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.
Psalm 73:19
How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
James 1:11
For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.
Cut off
Isaiah 17:5
And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
And I saw, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like the Son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.