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:
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As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
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: …
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. …
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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, c…
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