Psalm 92:7

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:

Wicked

1 Peter 1:24

Workers

It is that

Luke 16:19

General references

Psalm 37:2

Psalm 90:6

Bible References

Wicked

Do not worry because of evildoers,

Nor be envious toward wrongdoers;

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

“Therefore their inhabitants had little power,
They were terrorized and shamed;
They were like the grass of the field and the green vegetation,
Like grass on the housetops and like a field [of grain] scorched before it is grown.

A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For,“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,

Workers

Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who always prosper and are at ease [in the world]; they have increased in wealth.

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;
And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,
Whom God brings into their power.

“Why do the wicked still live,
Become old, and become mighty in power?

You, O Lord are [uncompromisingly] righteous and consistently just when I plead my case with You;
Yet let me discuss issues of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are those who deal in treachery (deceit) at ease and thriving?

So now we call the arrogant happy and blessed. Evildoers are exalted and prosper; and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].’”

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

It is that

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s mood was joyous because he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

“For the turning away of the naive will kill them,
And the careless ease of [self-righteous] fools will destroy them.

“Now there was a certain rich man who was habitually dressed in expensive purple and fine linen, and celebrated and lived joyously in splendor every day.

General references

For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.

In the morning it flourishes and springs up;
In the evening it wilts and withers away.