Isaiah 40:7

The Scriptures 1998

“Grass shall wither, the flower shall fade, when the Spirit of יהוה  has blown on it! Truly the people is 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

Through the breath of Eloah they perish, and through the Spirit of His nostrils they are consumed.

Job 41:21

His breath sets coals on fire, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Psalm 103:15

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Psalm 103:16

For the wind blows over it, and it is no more, And its place no longer remembers it.

Psalm 90:5

You have swept them away, They are as a sleep, Like grass that springs up in the morning.

Psalm 90:6

At evening it is cut down and withered.

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips.

Isaiah 37:27

“And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame. They were as the grass of the field and as the green plant, as the grass on the house-tops and as grain blighted before it is grown.

Isaiah 40:24

Hardly have they been planted, hardly have they been sown, hardly has their stock taken root in the earth, when He shall blow on them and they wither, and a whirlwind take them away like stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of man that dies, and of the son of man who is made like grass?

Haggai 1:9

“When you looked for much, then see, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I would blow on it. Why?” declares יהוה  of hosts. “Because of My House which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

James 1:10

but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he shall pass away.

James 1:11

For the sun rose with burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell, and its pretty appearance perished. So also the rich man shall fade away in his ways.