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 bay tree.

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

You carry them away as with a flood; they are like 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 do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

But 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 of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: