Psalms 92:7

THE WICKED TO BE DESTROYED

"When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;

It is that they shall be destroyed forever.

But thou, O Jehovah, art on high forevermore.

For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah,

For, lo, thine enemies shall perish;

All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered."

"When the wicked spring as the grass" (Psalms 92:7). The Good News Bible reads this, "Grow like weeds." We have encountered this adequate metaphor before. Nothing provides any better picture of wicked men than the grass which flourishes one day and is destroyed the next.

"They shall be destroyed forever" (Psalms 92:7). "The prosperity of the wicked has posed a difficult problem for some. Job struggled with it (Job 21:7-21); and Asaph was troubled by it (Psalms 73:2-15); but the psalmist here found no problem at all with it. He saw the prosperous condition of the wicked as nothing but a prelude to their destruction."[9] No enemy of God has any future except that of eternal destruction from the presence of God and the glory of his power (2 Thessalonians 1:9).