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 the wicked 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 carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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.

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: