Isaiah 40:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Isaiah 40:7 —

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Cross-References

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Job 41:21
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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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. 7)

7. spirit of the Lord--rather, “wind of Jehovah” (Psa 103:16). The withering east wind of those countries sent by Jehovah (Jon 4:8). the people--rather, “this people” [Lowth], which may refer to the Babylonians [Rosenmuller]; but better, mankind in general, as in Is 42:5, so Is 40:6, “all flesh”; this whole race, that is, man.