Isaiah 40:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Someone told me to shout, and I asked, “What should I shout?” We humans are merely grass, and we last no longer than wild flowers.

Cross References

Job 14:2

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Psalm 102:11

My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.

Isaiah 12:6

Sing, people of Zion! Celebrate the greatness of the holy LORD of Israel. God is here to help you.

Isaiah 37:27

Their people became weak, terribly confused. They were like wild flowers or like tender young grass growing on a flat roof or like a field of grain before it matures.

Isaiah 40:3

Someone is shouting: “Clear a path in the desert! Make a straight road for the LORD our God.

Isaiah 51:12

I am the LORD, the one who encourages you. Why are you afraid of mere humans? They dry up and die like grass.

Isaiah 58:1

Shout the message! Don't hold back. Say to my people Israel: You've sinned! You've turned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:2

to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.

Jeremiah 31:6

Some day those who guard the hill country of Ephraim will shout, “Let's go to Zion and worship the LORD our God.”

Hosea 5:8

Give a warning on the trumpet! Let it be heard in Gibeah, Ramah, and sinful Bethel. Benjamin, watch out!

Zechariah 1:14

So the angel told me to announce: I, the LORD All-Powerful, am very protective of Jerusalem.