The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.…
James 1:10And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.
James 1:11For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Job 4:9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
Job 14:2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
Job 41:21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.
Psalm 90:5Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
Psalm 90:6In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.
Psalm 102:4I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
Psalm 103:16For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.
Isaiah 11:4But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
Isaiah 37:27The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.
Isaiah 40:24And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Isaiah 51:12I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?
Haggai 1:9You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house.
