Isaiah 40:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.

Job 4:9

perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.

Job 41:21

The beams of the sun will be under him, and he will dispense gold to them as if it were clay.

Psalm 102:4

He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion.

Psalm 103:15

and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.

Psalm 103:16

The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.

Psalm 90:5

His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,

Psalm 90:6

before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon.

Isaiah 11:4

Instead, he will judge the poor with justice, and he will reprove the meek of the earth with fairness. And he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and he will slay the impious with the spirit of his lips.

Isaiah 37:27

Their inhabitants had unsteady hands. They trembled and were confused. They became like the plants of the field, and the grass of the pastures, and like the weeds on the rooftops, which wither before they are mature.

Isaiah 40:24

And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown them across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.

Isaiah 51:12

It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for more, and behold, it became less, and you brought it home, and I blew it away. What is the cause of this, says the Lord of hosts? It is because my house is desolate, yet you have hurried, each one to his own house.

James 1:10

and a rich one, in his humiliation, for he will pass away like the flower of the grass.

James 1:11

For the sun has risen with a scorching heat, and has dried the grass, and its flower has fallen off, and the appearance of its beauty has perished. So also will the rich one wither away, according to his paths.