⁶ 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.
⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades,
But ^(B)the word of our God stands forever.”

^(A)“All flesh is as grass,
And all ^[a]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,

¹⁵ As for man, ^(A)his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
^16 (B)For the wind passes over it, and it is ^[a]gone,
And ^(C)its place remembers it no more.