Psalms 92:7

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, ¹  it is so that they may be annihilated. ² 

1Sa 25:36-38; Job 12:6; Job 21:7-12; Ps 37:1,2,35,38; Ps 37:35,36,38; Ps 73:12,18-20; Ps 73:18-20; Ps 90:5,6; Ps 103:15,16; Pr 1:32; Isa 37:27; Isa 40:6,7; Jer 12:1,2; Mal 3:15; Mal 4:1; Lu 16:19-25; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24

¹ tn Or “flourish.”

² tn Heb “in order that they might be destroyed permanently.”

sn God allows the wicked to prosper temporarily so that he might reveal his justice. When the wicked are annihilated, God demonstrates that wickedness does not pay off.