Isaiah 40:7

Modern English Version

The grass withers, the flower fades because the Spirit of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are destroyed.

Job 41:21

His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

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

Psalm 103:16

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

Psalm 90:5

You carry them away like a flood; they fall asleep; in the morning they are like grass that grows anew:

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it fades and withers.

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and reprove with fairness for the meek of the earth. He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength; they were dismayed and humiliated; they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely shall they be planted; scarcely shall they be sown; scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of Hosts. Because of My house that lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house.

James 1:10

but the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with a burning heat and it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man wither away in his ways.