Verse 6

The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For 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.
  • 1 Pet 1:24-25 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; 25 But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Isa 61:1-2 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
  • Jer 31:6 : 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.
  • Hos 5:8 : 8 "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"
  • Isa 37:27 : 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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.