For they will soon (A)fade like (B)the grass
    and wither (C)like the green herb.

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15 As for man, his days are like (A)grass;
    he flourishes like (B)a flower of the field;

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26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become (A)like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted before it is grown.

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The Word of God Stands Forever

A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
(A)All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty[b] is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
(B)The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:6 Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
  2. Isaiah 40:6 Or all its constancy

24 for

(A)“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,

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