though the wicked sprout like grass(A)
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.(B)

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Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
which withers before it grows up[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 129:6 Or it can be pulled out

11 For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.(A)

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