10 occurrences

'Withers' in the Bible

“While it is still green and not cut down,Yet it withers before any other plant.

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing

In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew;Toward evening it fades and withers away.

Verse ConceptsMowingChange And Growth

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,Which withers before it grows up;

Verse ConceptsGrassHousetopsGrass WitheredLike GrassGrowing

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

The land mourns and pines away,Lebanon is shamed and withers;Sharon is like a desert plain,And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

Verse ConceptsdrynessThe Prophecy Towards LebanonMourning Due To Catastrophe

And all the host of heaven will wear away,And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;All their hosts will also wither awayAs a leaf withers from the vine,Or as one withers from the fig tree.

Verse ConceptsdrynessAstronomyHost Of HeavenScrollsSkyStarsVinesFigsThe Universe DestroyedNature DecayingAffecting Sun Moon And StarsLucifer

The grass withers, the flower fades,When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;Surely the people are grass.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeFlowersThe Holy Spirit In CreationGrass WitheredMere Men

Say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

Verse ConceptsRootsUnfruitfulnessMany EnemiesPlants Growing UpEasy For People

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