Isaiah 40:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Cross References

Job 41:21

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

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.

Job 4:9

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

Job 14:2

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

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.

Psalm 102:4

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

Psalm 103:16

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

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide 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 grain before it is 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 that 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 Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

Psalm 103:15

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