Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:
New American Standard Bible
Then
King James Version
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:
Holman Bible
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
International Standard Version
A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.
A Conservative Version
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field.
American Standard Version
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Amplified
A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
Bible in Basic English
A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
Darby Translation
A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
Julia Smith Translation
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
King James 2000
The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field:
Lexham Expanded Bible
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
Modern King James verseion
The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the beauty of it is as the flower of the field.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.
NET Bible
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
New Heart English Bible
The voice of one saying, "Cry." One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
The Emphasized Bible
A voice saying Cry! And one said - What should I cry? All flesh, is grass, And, all the grace thereof, like the flower of the field:
Webster
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:
World English Bible
The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Themes
Endurance » What does not endure
Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
Man » Extremity of examples of » Frailty of
Man » A social being » As grass
Interlinear
Qara'
Qara'
Basar
Checed
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
5 And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen it have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. 6 A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field: 7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass;
Cross References
Job 14:2
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Psalm 102:11
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Psalm 103:15-16
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Isaiah 58:1
Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;
Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
James 1:10-11
and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
Isaiah 12:6
Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst is the Holy One of Israel!'
Isaiah 37:27
And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
Isaiah 40:3
A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
Jeremiah 2:2
'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there is a day, Cried have watchmen on mount Ephraim, 'Rise, and we go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God;
Hosea 5:8
Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
1 Peter 1:24-25
because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,