Isaiah 40:7

American King James Version (1999)

The grass wither, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows on it: surely the people is grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Job 4:9

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

Job 41:21

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that 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 flourishes.

Psalm 103:16

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

Psalm 90:5

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.

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 corn blasted before it be grown up.

Isaiah 40:24

Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

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

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and, see it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow on it. Why? said the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man to his own house.

James 1:10

But 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 is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.