Isaiah 40:6

A voyce saide, Crie. And he saide, What shall I crie? All flesh is grasse, and all the grace thereof is as the floure of the fielde.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

In Context

5And the glory of the Lord shalbe reueiled, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

7The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.

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Cross References

Psalms 90:5Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:

Psalms 92:7(When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.

Psalms 103:15The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.

Isaiah 12:6Cry out, and shoute, O inhabitant of Zion: for great is ye holy one of Israel in the middes of thee.

Isaiah 40:3A voyce cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make streight in the desert a path for our God.

Isaiah 58:1Crye aloude, spare not: lift vp thy voyce like a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgression, and to the house of Iaakob, their sinnes.

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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