Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
KJV
Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me :
Vulgate
Κύριε, μὴ τῷ θυμῷ σου ἐλέγξῃς με, μηδὲ τῇ ὀργῇ σου παιδεύσῃς με.
LXX
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
ASV
כִּ֣י כֶ֭/חָצִיר מְהֵרָ֣ה יִמָּ֑לוּ וּ/כְ/יֶ֥רֶק דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא יִבּוֹלֽוּ/ן
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
דֶּ֔שֶׁא
dsh'
verb · 15×
חֲצִ֣יר
chtsyr
noun · 21×
יִבֹּ֑לוּ
yblv
verb · 25×
יֶ֥רֶק
yrq
noun · 6×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מְהֵרָ֥ה
mhrh
noun · 19×
נְמַלְתֶּ֕ם
nmltm
verb · 5×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
- Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Job 20:5 — That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Ps 37:35 — I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
- Ps 73:17 — Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Ps 92:7 — 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:
- Ps 102:4 — My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
- Ps 129:5 — Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
- Ps 129:6 — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: