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
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;
Jeremiah 17:6
“For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.
Matthew 13:20
The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For,
All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,

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