Isaiah 40:8

In 11 translations

BSB

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”Cited in 1 Peter 1:24–25

KJV

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

WEB

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

ASV

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

LSV

Grass has withered, the flower faded, || But a word of our God rises forever.

YLT

Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

DBY

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.Elohim

DRC

The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.

GNV

The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.

JPS

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'

LXXE

but the word of our God abides for ever.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יָבֵ֥שׁ חָצִ֖יר נָ֣בֵֽל צִ֑יץ וּדְבַר־אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יָק֥וּם לְעוֹלָֽם׃

LXX-Br

τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

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• Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• 1 Peter 1:25but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
• Psalms 119:89–91Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures. Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things…
• Matthew 5:18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
• Isaiah 55:10–11For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me…
• Isaiah 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’ I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My…
• John 10:35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
• Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and…
• John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
• Zechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He…
• Romans 3:1–3What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God. What if some did not have faith? Will their lack…

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