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Isaiah 40:6

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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

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The surrounding passage

  1. Isaiah 40:4

    Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

  2. Isaiah 40:5

    And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  3. Isaiah 40:7

    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

  4. Isaiah 40:8

    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.