Psalm 37:2 New International Version

²for like the grass they will soon wither,^(A)
like green plants they will soon die away.^(B)

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Isaiah 16:8 New International Version

⁸The fields of Heshbon^(A) wither,^(B)
    the vines of Sibmah^(C) also.
The rulers of the nations
    have trampled down the choicest vines,^(D)
which once reached Jazer^(E)
    and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out^(F)
    and went as far as the sea.^[a]^(G)

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Footnotes

Isaiah 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea

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Isaiah 16:8 in all English translations

Isaiah 24:4 New International Version

⁴The earth dries up^(A) and withers,^(B)
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens^(C) languish with the earth.^(D)

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Isaiah 24:4 : Jer 12:11; 14:4; Joel 1:10
Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 15:6
Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 2:12
Isaiah 24:4 : S Isa 3:26

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Isaiah 24:7 New International Version

⁷The new wine dries up^(A) and the vine withers;^(B)
all the merrymakers groan.^(C)

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Isaiah 24:7 in all English translations

Isaiah 24:11 New International Version

¹¹In the streets they cry out^(A) for wine;^(B)
all joy turns to gloom,^(C)
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.

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Isaiah 33:9 New International Version

⁹The land dries up^(A) and wastes away,
Lebanon^(B) is ashamed and withers;^(C)
Sharon^(D) is like the Arabah,
and Bashan^(E) and Carmel^(F) drop their leaves.

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Isaiah 34:4 New International Version

⁴All the stars in the sky will be dissolved^(A)
    and the heavens rolled up^(B) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall^(C)
    like withered^(D) leaves from the vine,
    like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

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Isaiah 34:4 in all English translations

Isaiah 37:27 New International Version

²⁷Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(A) sprouting on the roof,^(B)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields

Cross references

Isaiah 37:27 : S Isa 15:6
Isaiah 37:27 : Ps 129:6

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Isaiah 40:7 New International Version

⁷The grass withers^(A) and the flowers fall,
because the breath^(B) of the Lord blows^(C) on them.
Surely the people are grass.

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Isaiah 40:7 in all English translations

Isaiah 51:6 New International Version

⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
    look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,^(A)
    the earth will wear out like a garment^(B)
    and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation^(C) will last forever,^(D)
    my righteousness will never fail.^(E)

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Isaiah 51:12 New International Version

¹²“I, even I, am he who comforts^(A) you.
Who are you that you fear^(B) mere mortals,^(C)
human beings who are but grass,^(D)

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Hosea 4:3 New International Version

³Because of this the land dries up,^(A)
and all who live in it waste away;^(B)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea are swept away.^(C)

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Hosea 4:3 in all English translations

Joel 1:12 New International Version

¹²The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(A)
the pomegranate,^(B) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(C)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.