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 thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers.

As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.

For their inhabiters shall be like lame men, brought in fear and confounded. They shall be like the grass and green herbs in the field, like the hay upon housetops, that withereth afore it be grown up.

The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

Workers

Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession;

"The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperity; and they that maliciously meddle against God, dwell without care: yea, God giveth all things richly with his hand.

"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?

O LORD, thou art more righteous than that I should dispute with thee: Nevertheless, let me talk with thee in things reasonable. How happeneth it, that the way of the ungodly is so prosperous? And that it goeth so well with them, which without any shame offend and live in wickedness?

Therefore may we say, that the proud are happy, and that they which deal with ungodliness, are set up: for they tempt God and yet escape.'

For mark, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea and all such as do wickedness, shall be straw: and the day that is for to come, shall burn them up, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

It is that

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.

General references

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

In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.