Isaiah 40:6
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The Word of God Stands Forever
6 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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:6 Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
- Isaiah 40:6 Or all its constancy
1 Peter 1:24-25
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24 for
(A)“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 (B)but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word (C)is the good news that was preached to you.
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James 1:10-11
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10 and (A)the rich in his humiliation, because (B)like a flower of the grass[a] he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and (C)withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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- James 1:10 Or a wild flower
Psalm 102:11
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Job 14:2
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Isaiah 58:1
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True and False Fasting
58 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
(A)lift up your voice like a trumpet;
(B)declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Psalm 92:7
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7 that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
Jeremiah 31:6
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6 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in (A)the hill country of Ephraim:
(B)‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”
Jeremiah 2:2
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2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,
“I remember the devotion of (A)your youth,
your love (B)as a bride,
(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
(D)in a land not sown.
Isaiah 61:1-2
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The Year of the Lord's Favor
61 (A)The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has (B)anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;[a]
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and (C)the opening of the prison to those who are bound;[b]
2 (D)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
(E)and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:1 Or afflicted
- Isaiah 61:1 Or the opening [of the eyes] to those who are blind; Septuagint and recovery of sight to the blind
Isaiah 40:3
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3 (A)A voice cries:[a]
(B)“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
(C)make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one crying
Isaiah 37:27
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27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted[a] before it is grown.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 37:27 Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts a field
Isaiah 12:6
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6 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great (A)in your[a] midst is (B)the Holy One of Israel.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion
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