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Psa. 37:35 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I havep seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a μgreen bay tree.

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Job 5:3• ³I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

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Isa. 14:14‑19• ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
¹⁵none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
¹⁷that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
¹⁸--All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;
¹⁹but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain--those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. (Isa. 14:14‑19)

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or, tree that groweth in his own soil.

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Psa. 73:3‑11• ³For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
⁴For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
⁵They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:
⁶Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
⁷Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
⁸They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
⁹They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
¹⁰Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
¹¹And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? (Psa. 73:3‑11)

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Esther 5:11• ¹¹And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. (Esther 5:11)

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Job 5:3• ³I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

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Job 21:7‑17• ⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
⁸Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
¹²They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
¹³They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
¹⁴And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
¹⁵What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
¹⁶Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
¹⁷How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger? (Job 21:7‑17)

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Isa. 14:14‑19• ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
¹⁵none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
¹⁷that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
¹⁸--All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;
¹⁹but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain--those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. (Isa. 14:14‑19)

a green bay-tree.

or, a green tree that groweth in his ownsoil.

Job 8:13‑19• ¹³So are the paths of all that forget *God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
¹⁴Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
¹⁶He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
¹⁷His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow. (Job 8:13‑19)

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Ezek. 31:6‑10,18• ⁶All the fowl of the heavens 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 the great nations.
⁷Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: because his root was by great waters.
⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
⁹I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, … and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,
¹⁸To 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 lower parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 31:6‑10,18)

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Dan. 4:20‑33• ²⁰The tree that thou sawest, which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto the heavens, and the sight of it to all the earth;
²¹whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation:
²²it is thou, O king, who art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
²³And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him:
²⁴this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which cometh upon my lord the king:
²⁵They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and thou shalt be bathed with the dew of heaven; and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
²⁶And whereas it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall remain unto thee, after that thou shalt know that the heavens do rule.
²⁷Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
²⁸All this came upon king Nebuchadnezzar.
²⁹At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon:
³⁰the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
³¹While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the heavens: King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee;
³²and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
³³The same hour was the word fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. (Dan. 4:20‑33)

• The wicked man may, indeed, for a time make a great show of prosperity—like a green bay-tree—yet he will pass away and not be found. (“Psalms 37” by H. Smith)

• The psalm closes with the remnant anticipating Antichrist and his followers being removed from power through judgment and them being delivered (vs. 35-40). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil: