Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
KJV
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
ASV
רָ֭אִיתִי רָשָׁ֣ע עָרִ֑יץ וּ֝/מִתְעָרֶ֗ה כְּ/אֶזְרָ֥ח רַעֲנָֽן
Hebrew
I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
YLT
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶזְרָח֙
'zrch
noun · 17×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יעָ֨רוּ֙
y'rv
verb · 15×
עָרִיצִ֖ים
'rytsym
adjective · 20×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×
רַעֲנָֽן
r'nn
verb · 19×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Dan 4:10 — Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
- Esth 5:11 — And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of t
- Esth 5:12 — Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
- Esth 7:9 — And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of H
- Ezek 31:6 — All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
- Ezek 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of t
- Isa 14:14 — I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isa 41:12 — Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
- Jas 1:11 — For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi
- Jer 12:1 — Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
- Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 8:13 — So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Job 12:6 — The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
- Job 19:10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- Job 20:5 — That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 21:7 — Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Job 21:7 — Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- Job 24:24 — They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
- Judg 4:17 — Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Luke 16:25 — But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
- Prov 21:12 — The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
- Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Ps 37:9 — For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
- Ps 37:10 — For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
- Ps 58:8 — As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Ps 73:3 — For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Ps 73:18 — Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
- 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: