Psalms 37:20 meaning and explanation

But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

Psalms 37:20, Berean Standard Bible

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Psalm 37 is David's wisdom poem to a community troubled by the prosperity of the wicked. In verse 20 he answers the envy discouraged in verse 1: the seeming glory of the wicked is like the glory of the fields, the brief green of grass that lasts a season and then is gone.

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