The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Psalm 92:7 - 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: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Bible - Classic Edition That though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to be destroyed forever. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers seem to blossom, they do so only to be destroyed forever. Catholic Public Domain Version Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days. |
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are raised up; yea, they that test God are even delivered.
For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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: