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Psa. 37:35 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I havep seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a μgreen bay tree.

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Job 5:3• ³I have seen a fool taking root,{HR}And suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

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Isa. 14:14‑19• ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, [saying,] [Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
¹⁷[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] let not loose his prisoners to their home?
¹⁸All kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
¹⁹But thou art cast out from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain—those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under foot. (Isa. 14:14‑19)

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or, tree that groweth in his own soil.

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Psa. 73:3‑11• ³For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men).
⁴For [there are] no pangs in their death,{HR}And their strength [is] firm (fat).
⁵In the hardships of men they [are] not,{HR}And with mankind are not smitten.
⁶Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
⁷Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
⁸They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak.
⁹They set their mouth in the heavens,{HR}And their tongue walketh in the earth.
¹⁰Therefore his people turn hither,{HR}And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.
¹¹And they say, How should God (El) know?{HR}And is there knowledge in the Most High? (Psa. 73:3‑11)

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Esther 5:11• ¹¹And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and [all the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. (Esther 5:11)

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Job 5:3• ³I have seen a fool taking root,{HR}And suddenly I cursed his habitation. (Job 5:3)

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Job 21:7‑17• ⁷Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth?
⁸Their seed is established with them in their sight,{HR}And their issues before their eyes.
⁹Their houses [are] peace, without fear,{HR}And the rod of God [is] not upon them.
¹⁰His bull gendereth, and faileth not,{HR}His cow calveth, and miscarrieth not.
¹¹They send forth their sucklings as a flock,{HR}And their children frisk.
¹²They lift [their voice] to timbrel and harp,{HR}And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.
¹³They wear out their days in prosperity,{HR}And in a moment sink [to] Sheol.
¹⁴Yet they say to God, Depart from us,{HR}For we desired not the knowledge of thy ways:
¹⁵What [is] the Almighty that we should serve him?{HR}And what profit have we if we meet him?
¹⁶Lo! their good [is] not in their hand.{HR}The counsel of the wicked be far from me.
¹⁷How oft is the lamp of the wicked put out,{HR}And their destruction cometh upon them —{HR}Torments he appointeth in his anger! (Job 21:7‑17)

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Isa. 14:14‑19• ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, [saying,] [Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
¹⁷[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] let not loose his prisoners to their home?
¹⁸All kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
¹⁹But thou art cast out from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain—those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under foot. (Isa. 14:14‑19)

a green bay-tree.

or, a green tree that groweth in his ownsoil.

Job 8:13‑19• ¹³So [are] the ways of all that forget God,{HR}And the hope of the polluted perisheth,
¹⁴Whose confidence is out off,{HR}And his truth a spider’s house;
¹⁵He leaneth on his house, but it standeth not,{HR}He fasteneth on it, but it abideth not.
¹⁶Green [is] he before the sun,{HR}And his suckers run over his garden;
¹⁷His roots are entwined over the stone-heap,{HR}He looketh on a house of stone,
¹⁸When he is swallowed out of its place,{HR}Then will it deny him: I saw thee not.
¹⁹Lo, this [is] the joy of his way,{HR}And out of the dust sprout, others; (Job 8:13‑19)

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Ezek. 31:6‑10,18• ⁶All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
⁷Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
⁹I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
¹⁸Whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 31:6‑10,18)

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Dan. 4:20‑33• ²⁰The tree that thou sawest, which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
²¹{i}whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and{/i} in it was meat for all: under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
²²It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
²³And whereas the king saw a watcher, and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, hew the tree down and destroy it. Yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.
²⁴This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king.
²⁵{i}They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and{/i} they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven; and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.
²⁶{i}And whereas it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall remain unto thee, after that thou shalt know that the heavens do rule.{/i}
²⁷{i}Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity{/i}.
²⁸All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
²⁹At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
³⁰The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
³¹While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee,
³²{i}and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will{/i}.
³³The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen. and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws. (Dan. 4:20‑33)

• The wicked man may, indeed, for a time make a great show of prosperity—like a green bay-tree—yet he will pass away and not be found. (“Psalm 37” by H. Smith)

• The psalm closes with the remnant anticipating Antichrist and his followers being removed from power through judgment and them being delivered (vs. 35-40). (“Book 1.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

W. Kelly Translation

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I have seen the wicked [man] strong{HR}And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.