Isaiah 40:7

Modern King James Version

The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of Jehovah blows on it; surely the people is grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

Job 4:9

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils 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 dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are as 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 shall know it no more.

Psalm 90:5

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it is cut down, and dries up.

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with uprightness for the meek of the earth. And 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

And their inhabitants were short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.

Isaiah 40:24

Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

I, I, am He who comforts you. Who are you, that you should fear a man. He shall die, or from the son of man? He shall be made as grass?

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house.

James 1:10

and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.

James 1:11

For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways.