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 like a green tree in its native soil:

Until I went into the sanctuaries of God; then understood I their end.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;

The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.

Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;