Isaiah 37:27
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27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
that is scorched before the east wind.[a](A)
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- 37.27 Q ms: MT and a field before standing grain
Psalm 129:6
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6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,(A)
1 Peter 1:24
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24 For
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,(A)
James 1:10-11
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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A) 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.
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Jeremiah 37:10
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10 Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.(A)
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Jeremiah 5:10
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10 Go up through her vine rows and destroy,
but do not make a full end;
strip away her branches,
for they are not the Lord’s.(A)
Isaiah 40:6-8
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6 A voice says, “Cry out!”
And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
their constancy is like the flower of the field.(A)
7 The grass withers; the flower fades,
[[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.(B)
8 The grass withers; the flower fades,]][b]
but the word of our God will stand forever.(C)
Isaiah 19:16
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16 On that day the Egyptians will be like women and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts raises against them.(A)
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Psalm 127:1-2
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Psalm 127
God’s Blessings in the Home
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city,
the guard keeps watch in vain.(A)
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](B)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
Psalm 103:15
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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
Psalm 92:7
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7 though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)
Psalm 90:5-6
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
Psalm 37:2
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2 for they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.(A)
2 Kings 19:26
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26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
that is scorched before the east wind.[a](A)
Numbers 14:9
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9 Only, do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are no more than bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”(A)
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