The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!

Cry aloud, do not spare; lift up your voice like a shofar, and declare to My people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

For there shall be a day that the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God!

Blow the shofar in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Cry aloud at Beth-aven; after you, O Benjamin.

And their inhabitants had little power; being dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and the standing grain before the field.

He comes forth like a flower and is cut off; he flees like a shadow and does not remain.

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.

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, and I am dried up like grass.

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

And then the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place is noticed no more.

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,