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

[A Psalm of David.] Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of the workers of iniquity.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown.

The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field:

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:

Workers

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.

Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.

For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

It is that

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

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 very drunk: therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until the morning light.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day:

General references

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.