Isaiah 40:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.” “Yes, the people is grass!

Cross References

Job 14:2

Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed.

Job 41:21

Clubs he regards as straw; he laughs at the crash of the spear.

Psalm 102:4

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn away as in a furnace.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like the grass; he blossoms like a flower in the field.

Psalm 103:16

A wind sweeps over it and it is gone; its place knows it no more.

Psalm 90:5

you wash them away; They sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it blooms only to pass away; in the evening it is wilted and withered.

Isaiah 11:4

But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide fairly for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 37:27

Their people powerless, dismayed and distraught, They are plants of the field, green growth, thatch on the rooftops, Grain scorched by the east wind.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely their stem rooted in the earth, When he breathes upon them and they wither, and the stormwind carries them away like straw.

Isaiah 51:12

I, it is I who comfort you. Can you then fear mortals who die, human beings who are just grass,

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but it came to little; and what you brought home, I blew away. Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts— Because my house is the one which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to your own house.

James 1:10

and the rich one in his lowliness, for he will pass away “like the flower of the field.”

James 1:11

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, its flower droops, and the beauty of its appearance vanishes. So will the rich person fade away in the midst of his pursuits. Temptation.