Isaiah 40:7

World English Bible (2000)

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

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  • Job 41:21 : 21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

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  • 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

  • Isa 40:5-6
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    5The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

    6The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

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    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

    25but the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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

  • 12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • 11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • 26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

  • 4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

  • 15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • 6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

  • 7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • 4The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

  • 24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • 24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.

  • 30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • 6For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

  • 2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • 4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • 17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • 10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

  • 16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • 11You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

  • 11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

  • 9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • 4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • 3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

  • 4and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

  • 22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • 12"I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

  • 6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

  • 5Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

  • 4For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

  • 7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

  • 4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • 18He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

  • 39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

  • 1Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.

  • 1An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: