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Psalms 37:2 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Psalms 37:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 37:27 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּ֣יkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
כֶ֭/חָצִירkeḥāṣiyr
like grasspronH2682
hay · herb · leek
מְהֵרָ֣הməhērāh
quicklynounH4120
quickly · shortly · soon · make speed ···
יִמָּ֑לוּyimālw
they will witherverbH5243
circumcise
וּ/כְ/יֶ֥רֶקwkəyereq
and like the greenery ofconjH3418
green
דֶּ֝֗שֶׁאdešeʾ
vegetationnounH1877
green · herb
יִבּוֹלֽוּ/ןyibwōlwn
they will fade !verbH5034
dishounour · lightly esteem · fade (away · -ing) ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 37:2

On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 37 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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