Isaiah 40:7

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

In Context

6A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

8The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

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Cross References

Psalms 90:5...

Isaiah 51:12I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:4-9

Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord , make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is… Read the whole commentary →

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