Isaiah 40:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

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  • Job 41:21 : 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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  • 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

  • Isa 40:5-6
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    5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

    6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:

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    24 ¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

    25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • 12 Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

    6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • 11 My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.

  • 4 The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

  • 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

  • 6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

  • 7 ¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

  • 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • 10 Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

  • 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 6 ¶ For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

  • 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

  • 16 [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.

  • 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

  • 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

  • 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 15 Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

  • 4 And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

  • 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  • 12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;

  • 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth.

  • 5 ¶ Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

  • 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

  • 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more].

  • 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

  • 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

  • 39 For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

  • 1 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings.

  • 1 ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.