While it is yet green, not cut down, it dries out before any plant.
that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?
Does papyrus grow without a marsh, a reed thrive without water?
So are the paths of all who forget Ě
And the rivers shall stink, and the streams shall be weak and dried up. Reeds and rushes shall wither.
“For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited.
“And that sown on rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,