Parallel Verses
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:
New American Standard Bible
And all
It was only that they might be
Holman Bible
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:
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:
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!
Themes
Grass » Illustrative » Of prosperity of the wicked
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Everlasting destruction
Wicked people » Compared with » Grass
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 92:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love And Faithfulness
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth 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 for ever: 8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
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 thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth 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 drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Job 21:7-12
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Psalm 37:1-2
{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against 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
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth 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 flourisheth.
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 small 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 corn blasted before it be grown up.
Isaiah 40:6-7
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Malachi 3:15
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 16:19-25
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared 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 withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: