Parallel Verses

King James 2000

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:

New American Standard Bible

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

King James Version

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:

Holman Bible

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

International Standard Version

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

A Conservative Version

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

Darby Translation

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:

Lexham Expanded Bible

When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.

Modern King James verseion

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they shall be destroyed forever;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

NET Bible

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

New Heart English Bible

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

The Emphasized Bible

When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Webster

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:

World English Bible

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Youngs Literal Translation

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

References

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Fausets

Context Readings

God's Love And Faithfulness

6 A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this. 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever: 8 But you, LORD, are most high forevermore.

Cross References

Psalm 37:38

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 73:18-20

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

Job 12:6

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

1 Samuel 25:36-38

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.

Job 21:7-12

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

Psalm 37:1-2

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

Psalm 37:35-36

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

Psalm 73:12

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

Psalm 90:5-6

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

Psalm 94:4

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Psalm 103:15-16

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

Proverbs 1:32

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

Isaiah 37:27

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.

Isaiah 40:6-7

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:

Jeremiah 12:1-2

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?

Malachi 3:15

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

Malachi 4:1

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.

Luke 16:19-25

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

James 1:10-11

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

1 Peter 1:24

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:

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