Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass. 1

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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 says, “Cry.” Another answers, “What should I cry?” 1 “All flesh is grass, and all their covenant faithfulness is like the flower of the field. 1

8The grass withers, the flower wilts, but the word of our God will stand forever.” 1

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Cross References

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; 1 in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up. 1

Isaiah 51:12“I, I, am he who comforts you. 1 Why are you afraid of men, who will die, the sons of mankind, who are made like grass? 1

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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