Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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Genesis 41:6
Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41:23
and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Hosea 13:15
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
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Numbers 24:5
How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel!
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Numbers 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
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Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Ruth 2:4
Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”
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Ruth 4:7
Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.
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2 Kings 19:25
Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
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2 Chronicles 32:17
He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”
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Job 8:11
“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
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Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Psalms 103:16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
James 4:14
Yet 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.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Job 15:30
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
Job 15:32
It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
Job 15:33
He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Isaiah 1:30
For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
Jeremiah 48:6
Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
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Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 20:6
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
Job 20:7
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Job 20:8
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 20:9
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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Job 34:20
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Daniel 2:34
You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
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Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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Psalms 79:7
for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
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Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
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Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Isaiah 37:29
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
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Psalms 129:1
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
Psalms 129:3
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
Psalms 129:4
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
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Isaiah 40:24
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
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Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
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Matthew 9:2
Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
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Matthew 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;
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Mark 2:4
When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
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Luke 8:5
“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
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Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
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Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
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