Psalms 129:6

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

“Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.

For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”

The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;

The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.