Isaiah 40:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely [all] the people are like grass.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

Common English Bible

⁷ The grass dries up and the flower withers when the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are grass.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. For the Spirit of the Lord has blown over it. Truly, the people are like grass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass.

Isaiah 40:7 Cross References

Job 14:2

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

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed

Job 41:21

His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Psalm 103:16

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

Psalm 90:5

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Psalm 90:6

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

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Isaiah 37:27

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 corn before it be grown up.

Isaiah 40:24

Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

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

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

James 1:10

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

James 1:11

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.