Parallel Verses
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:
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.
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.
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:
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 the glory of Jehovah was uncovered, and all flesh saw it together: for the mouth of Jehovah spake. 6 The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field: 7 The grass was dried up, the flower fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah blew upon it: surely the people grass.
Cross References
Job 14:2
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
Psalm 102:11
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
Psalm 103:15-16
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Isaiah 58:1
Call with the throat; thou shalt not spare; as a trumpet lift up thy voice, and announce to my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sin.
Isaiah 61:1-2
The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah anointed me to announce good news to the afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the broken of heart, to call freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to the bound.
James 1:10-11
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
Psalm 92:7
In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout for joy thou inhabitress of Zion, for great in the midst of thee the Holy One of Isarel.
Isaiah 37:27
And their inhabitants short of hand; they were dismayed and ashamed; they were the greet herb of the field and the verdure, and the tender grass of the enclosure of the roofs, and a blasting before it rose up.
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there is a day they watching upon mount Ephraim called, Arise ye, and we will go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
Hosea 5:8
Strike the horn upon the hill, and the trumpet upon the height: make a loud noise at the house of vanity after thee, O Benjamin.
1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out: