For they wither quickly like grass
and wilt like tender green plants.

You are the most handsome of men;
grace flows from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.

Lord God of Hosts, You are the God of Israel,
rise up to punish all the nations;
do not show grace to any wicked traitors.Selah

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.

May there be plenty of grain in the land;
may it wave on the tops of the mountains.
May its crops be like Lebanon.
May people flourish in the cities
like the grass of the field.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
The Lord gives grace and glory;
He does not withhold the good
from those who live with integrity.

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

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

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.

He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,

They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up

who covers the sky with clouds,
prepares rain for the earth,
and causes grass to grow on the hills.