Isaiah 40:7

New International Version

The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

Job 4:9

At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

Job 41:21

Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

Psalm 103:15

The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 103:16

the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 90:5

Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Psalm 90:6

In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

Isaiah 11:4

but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.

Isaiah 37:27

Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.

Isaiah 40:24

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,

Haggai 1:9

“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

James 1:10

But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.