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 wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.
Psalm 37:10
Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there.
Psalm 73:19
How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.
Psalm 92:7
Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.
James 1:11
For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.
James 5:1
Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.
Cut off
Isaiah 17:5
it will be as if harvesters gather standing grain, reaping the ears by hand, or it will be as if grain is harvested in the valley of Rephaim.
Revelation 14:14
Then I looked, and there was a white cloud! On the cloud sat someone who was like the Son of Man, with a gold victor's crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.