Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.
New American Standard Bible
And all
It was only that they might be
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
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;
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 An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it - 7 that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever. 8 But thou, LORD, art the most highest for evermore.
Cross References
Psalm 37:38
As for the transgressors, they shall perish together; and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last.
Psalm 73:18-20
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
Job 12:6
"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.
1 Samuel 25:36-38
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.
Job 21:7-12
"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?
Psalm 37:1-2
{A Psalm of David} Fret not thyself because of the ungodly; neither be thou envious against the evil doers.
Psalm 37:35-36
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Psalm 73:12
Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession;
Psalm 90:5-6
As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.
Psalm 94:4
How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully, and make such proud boasting?
Psalm 103:15-16
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
Proverbs 1:32
for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.
Isaiah 37:27
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.
Isaiah 40:6-7
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.
Jeremiah 12:1-2
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?
Malachi 3:15
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.'
Malachi 4:1
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.
Luke 16:19-25
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
James 1:10-11
and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.
1 Peter 1:24
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,