Psalm 37:2

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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.

Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,