While yet in its greenness it shall not break off, and it will dry up before grass.
For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment
Shall the bulrush lift itself up without a marsh? shall the marsh grass grow without water?
So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish.
They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.
And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited.
And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it;
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out: