Psalm 90:5
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
Isaiah 40:6
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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)
Footnotes
- 40.6 Q ms Gk Vg: MT and he said
Psalm 73:20
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Footnotes
- 73.20 Cn: Heb Lord
Job 22:16
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16 They were snatched away before their time;
their foundation was washed away by a flood.(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)
Psalm 103:15-16
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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
Job 27:20-21
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20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(A)
21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
it sweeps them out of their place.(B)
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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Isaiah 29:7-8
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7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
all that fight against her and her stronghold and who distress her,
shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.(A)
8 Just as when a hungry person dreams of eating
and wakes up still hungry
or a thirsty person dreams of drinking
and wakes up faint, still thirsty,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.(B)
Isaiah 8:7-8
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7 therefore the Lord is bringing up against it the mighty flood waters of the River, the king of Assyria and all his glory; it will rise above all its channels and overflow all its banks; 8 it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.(A)
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Job 20:8
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8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)
Job 9:26
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26 They go by like skiffs of reed,
like an eagle swooping on the prey.(A)
Jeremiah 46:7-8
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7 Who is this, rising like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge?(A)
8 Egypt rises like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge.
It said, “Let me rise; let me cover the earth;
let me destroy cities and their inhabitants.”(B)
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