In that day Egypt shall be like women; and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of Hosts, which He shakes over it.

Only do not rebel against Jehovah, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their shade has departed from them, and Jehovah is with us. Do not fear them.

Therefore their inhabitants were short handed; they were shattered and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops and grain blighted before it is grown.

i1 [A Song of Ascents for Solomon.] i0 par Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Go up on her vine rows and destroy; but do not make a full end; take away her branches, for they are not Jehovah's.

For though you had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would rise up, each man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

The voice said, Cry out! And he said, What shall I proclaim? All flesh is grass, and all the goodness of it is as the flower of the field.

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our God stands forever.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass; and wither as the green herb.

You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:

In the morning it blossoms and sprouts; in the evening it is cut down and dries up.

When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they may be destroyed forever.

As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which is dried up before it shoots forth,

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

For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. Thus the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

because All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,