While it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it dries out before any other herb.
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?
So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.
For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
But that which was sown on the stony places is this: he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,