Psalms 37:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

KJV

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ASV

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

WEB

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

YLT

For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

DBT

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

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Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

13 verses on the floor

1 Peter 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:
Psalms 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:
Psalms 90:5–6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
James 1:10–11
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.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

(1.) They will soon wither of themselves. Outward prosperity is a fading thing, and so is the life itself to which it is confined. (2.) They will sooner be cut down by the judgments of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

, 10, 20, 35, 36, 38 ) and the salvation and protection which the righteous are sure of from all the malicious designs of the wicked,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Fretfulness and envy are sins that are their own punishments; they are the uneasiness of the spirit and the rottenness of the bones; it is therefore in kindness to ourselves that we are warned against them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Words3

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 37:2JOB 14:2 1PE 1:24
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 37:2JOB 14:2 ISA 40:6-8
PSA 37:2JOB 14:2 JOB 8:9
PSA 37:2JOB 14:2 PSA 103:15-16
PSA 37:2JOB 14:2 1CH 29:15
PSA 37:2PSA 92:7 PSA 37:38
PSA 37:2PSA 92:7 PSA 73:18-20
PSA 37:2PSA 92:7 PSA 37:1-2

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