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Psalms 129:5-7
Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows upand can’t even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.
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Psalms 73:17-20
until I entered God’s sanctuary. Then I understood their destiny.Indeed, you put them in slippery places; you make them fall into ruin.How suddenly they become a desolation! They come to an end, swept away by terrors.Like one waking from a dream, Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.
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Job 20:5-9
the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask,“ Where is he?”He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him.
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Job 14:2
He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.
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Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen a wicked, violent person well-rooted, like a flourishing native tree.Then I passed by and noticed he was gone; I searched for him, but he could not be found.
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Psalms 90:5-6
You end their lives; they sleep. They are like grass that grows in the morning—in the morning it sprouts and grows; by evening it withers and dries up.
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James 1:10-11
but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.
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Psalms 92:7
though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be eternally destroyed.
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1 Peter 1 24
For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
