Psalm 37:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

Common English Bible

² because they will fade fast, like grass; they will wither like green vegetables.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.

Psalm 37:2 Cross References

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Psalm 92:8

but you, O Lord, are on high forever.

Proverbs 24:20

for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.