Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
It is that
General references
Bible References
Wicked
Psalm 37:1
{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;
Psalm 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
Isaiah 37:27
And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
James 1:10
and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen;
Workers
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
Job 12:6
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
Malachi 3:15
And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
It is that
Psalm 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
Psalm 73:18
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
General references
Psalm 37:2
for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
Psalm 90:6
In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.