Isaiah 40:7

Tree of Life Version

The grass withers, the flower fades. For the breath of Adonai blows on it. Surely the people are grass.

Cross References

Job 14:2

Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of His anger they vanish.

Job 41:21

A club is regarded as stubble; he laughs at the rattling 0f a lance.

Psalm 102:4

For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he flourishes like a flower of the field,

Psalm 103:16

but when the wind blows over it, it is gone, and its place is no longer known.

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away in their sleep. In the morning they are like sprouting grass—

Psalm 90:6

in the morning it flourishes and springs up, by evening it withers and dries up.

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the poor of the land. He will strike the land with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

Isaiah 37:27

Their inhabitants are weak handed, shattered and ashamed. They are like the grass of the field and green herb, like grass on roofs, scorched before it is grown up.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely their stem takes root in the earth, when He blows on them and they wither, and a storm carries them off as stubble.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear man, who dies, or a son of man, who is given up like grass?”

Haggai 1:9

“You have looked for much, but indeed, there is little. What you have brought home, I have blown away. Why is this?”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“because My House lies in ruins, while you are running, each to his own house.

James 1:10

and the rich person in his humble position, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

James 1:11

For the sun arises with a scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So also the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.