While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,
That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,