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A voice says, “Cry out!”
    And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
    their constancy is like the flower of the field.(A)
The grass withers; the flower fades,
    [[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
    surely the people are grass.(B)
The grass withers; the flower fades,]][b]
    but the word of our God will stand forever.(C)
Get you up to a high mountain,
    O Zion, herald of good news;[c]
lift up your voice with strength,
    O Jerusalem, herald of good news;[d]
    lift it up, do not fear;
say to the cities of Judah,
    “Here is your God!”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 40.6 Q ms Gk Vg: MT and he said
  2. 40.7–8 Q ms Gk lack when the breath . . . flower fades
  3. 40.9 Or O herald of good news to Zion
  4. 40.9 Or O herald of good news to Jerusalem

10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A)

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11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.

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