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

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.

A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:

and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

Workers

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

It is that

I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

General references

For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.