For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
because they will fade fast, like grass; they will wither like green vegetables.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.
Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
But you, LORD, are most high forevermore.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away: