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People are no more enduring than grass. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/40-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/40-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/40-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/40.htm">Chapter 40</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/40-6.htm" title="Isaiah 40:6">◄</a> Isaiah 40:7 <a href="../isaiah/40-8.htm" title="Isaiah 40:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/40.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/40.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Grass withers and flowers fade when the LORD sends the wind blowing over them. People are no more enduring than grass. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/40.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/40.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />At the LORD's command, flowers and grass disappear, and so do we. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/40.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it.” “Yes, the people is grass! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/40.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:</p><p class="hdg">no reference </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/40.htm">The Word of the Lord Stands Forever</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6</span>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. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:</span><span class="reftext">8</span>The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/1-10.htm">James 1:10</a></span><br />And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/1-11.htm">James 1:11</a></span><br />For 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/4-9.htm">Job 4:9</a></span><br />Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/14-2.htm">Job 14:2</a></span><br />Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/41-21.htm">Job 41:21</a></span><br />His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/90-5.htm">Psalm 90:5</a></span><br />Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/90-6.htm">Psalm 90:6</a></span><br />In 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/102-4.htm">Psalm 102:4</a></span><br />I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/103-16.htm">Psalm 103:16</a></span><br />For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/11-4.htm">Isaiah 11:4</a></span><br />But 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/37-27.htm">Isaiah 37:27</a></span><br />The 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/40-24.htm">Isaiah 40:24</a></span><br />And 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/51-12.htm">Isaiah 51:12</a></span><br />I 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../haggai/1-9.htm">Haggai 1:9</a></span><br />You 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? 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