'Grass' in the Bible
I will provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied.
Let my teaching fall like rainand my word settle like dew,like gentle rain on new grassand showers on tender plants.
is like the morning light when the sun riseson a cloudless morning,the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”
Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”
Their inhabitants have become powerless,dismayed, and ashamed.They are plants of the field,tender grass,grass on the rooftops,blasted by the east wind.
You will also know that your offspring will be manyand your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grassor an ox low over its fodder?
Look at Behemoth,which I made along with you.He eats grass like an ox.
For they wither quickly like grassand wilt like tender green plants.
May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,like spring showers that water the earth.
May there be plenty of grain in the land;may it wave on the tops of the mountains.May its crops be like Lebanon.May people flourish in the citieslike the grass of the field.
You end their lives; they sleep.They are like grass that grows in the morning—
though the wicked sprout like grassand all evildoers flourish,they will be eternally destroyed.
My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;I even forget to eat my food.
My days are like a lengthening shadow,and I wither away like grass.
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
He causes grass to grow for the livestockand provides crops for man to cultivate,producing food from the earth,
They exchanged their gloryfor the image of a grass-eating ox.
Let them be like grass on the rooftops,which withers before it grows up
who covers the sky with clouds,prepares rain for the earth,and causes grass to grow on the hills.
A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes strawand as dry grass shrivels in the flame,so their roots will become like something rottenand their blossoms will blow away like dust,for they have rejectedthe instruction of the Lord of Hosts,and they have despisedthe word of the Holy One of Israel.
The waters of Nimrim are desolate;the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,and the vegetation has vanished.
the parched ground will become a pool of water,and the thirsty land springs of water.In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
Their inhabitants have become powerless,dismayed, and ashamed.They are plants of the field,tender grass,grass on the rooftops,blasted by the east wind.
A voice was saying, “Cry out!”Another said, “What should I cry out?”“All humanity is grass,and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flowers fadewhen the breath of the Lord blows on them;indeed, the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flowers fade,but the word of our God remains forever.”
They will sprout among the grasslike poplars by flowing streams.
I—I am the One who comforts you.Who are you that you should fear man who dies,or a son of man who is given up like grass?
You will see, you will rejoice,and you will flourish like grass;then the Lord’s power will be revealed to His servants,but He will show His wrath against His enemies.
How long will the land mournand the grass of every field wither?Because of the evil of its residents,animals and birds have been swept away,for the people have said,“He cannot see what our end will be.”
Even the doe in the fieldgives birth and abandons her fawnsince there is no grass.
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground,and with a band of iron and bronze around it,in the tender grass of the field.Let him be drenched with dew from the skyand share the plants of the earthwith the animals.
“The king saw an observer, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground and with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with dew from the sky, and share food with the wild animals for seven periods of time.’
You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals. You will feed on grass like cattle and be drenched with dew from the sky for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and He gives it to anyone He wants.
You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals, and you will feed on grass like cattle for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and He gives it to anyone He wants.”
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was executed. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over the kingdom of men and sets anyone He wants over it.
Then the remnant of Jacobwill be among many peopleslike dew from the Lord,like showers on the grass,which do not wait for anyoneor linger for mankind.