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Psalm 37

Psa. 37:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they shall soon
mherah (Hebrew #4120)
properly, a hurry; hence (adverbially) promptly
KJV usage: hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make (with) speed(-ily), swiftly.
Pronounce: meh-hay-raw'
Origin: feminine of 4118
be cut down
namal (Hebrew #5243)
to become clipped or (specifically) circumcised
KJV usage: (branch to) be cut down (off), circumcise.
Pronounce: naw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
like the grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
, and wither
nabel (Hebrew #5034)
to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, X surely, make vile, wither.
Pronounce: naw-bale'
Origin: a primitive root
as the green
yereq (Hebrew #3418)
properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation
KJV usage: grass, green (thing).
Pronounce: yeh'-rek
Origin: from 3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color)
herb
deshe' (Hebrew #1877)
a sprout; by analogy, grass
KJV usage: (tender) grass, green, (tender)herb.
Pronounce: deh'-sheh
Origin: from 1876
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Cross References

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Psa. 37:35‑36• 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
 36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)
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Psa. 73:17‑20• 17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
 18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
 19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. (Psa. 73:17‑20)
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Psa. 90:5‑6• 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
 6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. (Psa. 90:5‑6)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 129:5‑7• 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. (Psa. 129:5‑7)
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Job 20:5‑9• 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
 6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
 9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. (Job 20:5‑9)
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James 1:10‑11• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
 11For 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 his ways. (James 1:10‑11)
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1 Peter 1:24• 24For 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: (1 Peter 1:24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

W. Kelly Translation

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For like grass they are speedily cut off,{HR}And like the greenness of the tender herb they do fade.