Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Bible References

General references

Psalm 129:6
They shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Matthew 13:20
But he that was planted in stony places, the same is he that hears the word and receives it immediately with joy;
James 1:10
and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,