But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.

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12 The vine dries up;
    (A)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (B)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

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The Word of God Stands Forever

A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
(A)All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty[b] is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
(B)The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:6 Revocalization based on Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Vulgate; Masoretic Text And someone says
  2. Isaiah 40:6 Or all its constancy

10 because of your indignation and anger;
    for you have (A)taken me up and (B)thrown me down.

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You (A)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like (B)a dream,
    like (C)grass that is renewed in the morning:
in (D)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
    in the evening it (E)fades and (F)withers.

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As for me, I said in my (A)prosperity,
    “I shall never be (B)moved.”
By your favor, O Lord,
    you made my (C)mountain stand strong;
you (D)hid your face;
    I was (E)dismayed.

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21 And he said, (A)“Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I (B)return. The Lord (C)gave, and the Lord has taken away; (D)blessed be the name of the Lord.”

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