Isaiah 40:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Isaiah 40:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: …
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. …
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-8)

The time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, having come, the people of God must be prepared, by repentance and faith, for the favours designed them; and, in order to call them to both these, we have here the voice of one crying in the wilderness, which may be applied to those prophets who were with the captives in their wilderness-state, and who, when they saw the day of their deliverance dawn, ca…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. The voice--the same divine herald as in Is 40:3. he--one of those ministers or prophets (see on Is 40:1) whose duty it was, by direction of “the voice,” to “comfort the Lord’s afflicted people with the promises of brighter days.” All flesh is grass--The connection is, “All human things, however goodly, are transitory: God’s promises alone steadfast” (Is 40:8, 15, 17, 23, 24); this contrast was…