Psalms 92:7

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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.

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

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

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.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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.

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

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

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

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

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.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

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?

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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.

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;

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

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.

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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

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

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

“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?

For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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?

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.

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.