Isa 38:12-13, 40:6-7, Jam 1:11, 4:14, 1Pe 1:24 | ESV | STEP | My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent ; like a weaver I have rolled up my life ; he cuts me off from the loom ; from day to night you bring me to an end ;

Isaiah 38:12-13

12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
^alike a shepherd’s tent;
^blike a weaver ^cI have rolled up my life;
^dhe cuts me off from the loom;
^efrom day to night you bring me to an end;
13 ^fI calmed myself ^{▼▼Or (with Targum) I cried for help} until morning;
like a lion ^hhe breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

Isaiah 40:6-7

The Word of God Stands Forever

6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, ^{▼▼Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says} “What shall I cry?”
^jAll flesh is grass,
and all its beauty ^{▼▼Or all its constancy} is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.

James 1:11

11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and ^lwithers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

James 4:14

14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For ^myou are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

24 for

ⁿ“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,