Isaiah 40:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Job 41:21

His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

Psalm 103:16

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

Psalm 90:5

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Psalm 90:6

In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

Isaiah 11:4

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

Isaiah 37:27

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

Isaiah 40:24

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?

Haggai 1:9

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

James 1:10

But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

James 1:11

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.