Let them be as the (A)grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,

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The voice said, “Cry out!”
And [a]he said, “What shall I cry?”

(A)“All flesh is grass,
And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
But (B)the word of our God stands forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:6 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Vg. I

27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

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