The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice as with a trumpet, and declare to My people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;

to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompense; to comfort all that mourn;

I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your betrothal,

For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.

Blow the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.

I weakened [their] hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the housetops, and as grass.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

Years shall be vanity to them; let the morning pass away as grass.

In the morning let it flower, and pass away; in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.

When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; [it is] that they may be utterly destroyed forever.

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

[As for] man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

but the rich [man] in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.

For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,