'Grass' in the Bible
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field." And Balak son of Zippor [was] king of Moab at that time.
May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.
Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals."
Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.
Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?
While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass.
to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause [the ground] to put forth [the] rising of grass?
"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.
For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.
May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering [the] earth.
May there be an abundance of grain in the land [even] on [the] top of [the] mountains. May his crop sway like the [trees of] Lebanon, and may [those] from [the] city blossom like the grass of the earth.
You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.
When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
[who] causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth,
And [so] they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.
Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,
who covers [the] heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
The rage of a king growls like a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for [the] grass has withered, [the] vegetation has vanished, [there is] no greenness.
You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath [is] a fire; it will consume you.
And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds and thistle plants in her fortresses; and it shall be [the] settlement of jackals, green grass for [the] daughters of an ostrich.
And the parched ground shall become pool, and [the] thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place [is] in a settlement of jackals; [the] grass [shall become] like reeds and rushes.
And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.
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.
Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass.
Grass withers; [the] flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.
And they shall sprout {among} [the] grass like willows by a watercourse of water.
"I, I [am] he who comforts you; who [are] you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of [the] son of humankind? He is {sacrificed} [as] grass!
And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish} like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to} his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.
"Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions,
But the stump of its roots leave in the earth, {along with} a band of iron and bronze; [leave it] in the grass of the field. And in the dew of heaven let it be watered, and with the animals let his lot [be] in [the] grass of the earth.
And [inasmuch] that the king saw [the] watcher, a holy [one] coming down from heaven and he said, "Cut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and [let] his lot [be] with [the] animals of the field {until seven times have passed over him}."
you will be driven away {from human society} and {you will dwell} with the animals of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen {yourself}, and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven [periods of] time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High [is] sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {to whom he wills} he gives it.
and you will be driven away from {human society} and your dwelling [will be] with the animals of the field and they will cause you to graze [the] grass like oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you acknowledge that the Most High [is] sovereign over the kingdom of humankind and that he gives it to whom he wills.'
{Immediately} the word was fulfilled {concerning} Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from {human society} and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair [was] like [the hair of] an eagle and his nails grew like bird's [claws].
And he was driven away {from human society} and his mind was made like the animals and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses; [and] {he was given} grass like oxen to eat, and with the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God [is] sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {whoever} he wants he sets over it.
And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many nations, like dew from Yahweh, like showers upon the grass which does not wait for a man, nor delays for the children of humankind.