Isaiah 40:6
A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:
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Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning [they grow] like the grass which changeth.
Psalms 92:7(92:8) When the wicked spring up like herbs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed evermore.
Psalms 103:15As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom.
Isaiah 12:6Call aloud and shout, inhabitress of Zion; for great is in the midst of thee the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 40:3A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.
Isaiah 58:1Cry with a full throat, spare not, like the cornet lift up thy voice, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
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 →