Isaiah 40:8

Literal Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The grass withers, the flowers fade,but the word of our God remains forever.”

Hebrew Names Version
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

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

English Standard Version
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

New American Standard Bible
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

New Century Version
The grass dies and the flowers fall, but the word of our God will live forever."

Amplified Bible
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

World English Bible
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.

Legacy Standard Bible
The grass withers, the flower fades,But the word of our God stands forever.

Berean Standard Bible
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

Contemporary English Version
Flowers and grass fade away, but what our God has said will never change.

Complete Jewish Bible
The grass dries up, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever."

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Grass dies and flowers fall, but the word of our God lasts forever."

George Lamsa Translation
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Good News Translation
Yes, grass withers and flowers fade, but the word of our God endures forever."

Lexham English Bible
Grass withers; the flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Literal Translation
The grass withers; the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall rise forever.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuerthelesse whether the grasse wyther, or the floure fade awaye: Yet the worde of oure God endureth for euer. Morouer the voyce cried thus:

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

Bible in Basic English
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.'

King James Version (1611)
The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for euer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The grasse withereth, and the floure fadeth away: yet the worde of our God endureth for euer.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Verely the puple is hey; the hey is dried vp, and the flour felle doun; but the word of the Lord dwellith with outen ende.

Update Bible Version
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall shall stand forever.

New English Translation
The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable."

New King James Version
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

New Living Translation
The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever."

New Life Bible
The grass dries up. The flower loses its color. But the Word of our God stands forever.

New Revised Standard
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The grass, hath withered, The flower, hath faded, - But the word of our God, shall stand unto times age-abiding!

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

Revised Standard Version
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.

Young's Literal Translation
Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

Contextual Overview

³A voice is crying in a wilderness: "Prepare the way of YHWH, || Make straight in a desert a highway for our God. ⁴Every valley is raised up, || And every mountain and hill become low, || And the crooked place has become a plain, || And the entangled places a valley. ⁵And the glory of YHWH has been revealed, || And all flesh have seen [it] together, || For the mouth of YHWH has spoken." ⁶A voice is saying, "Call," || And he said, "What do I call?" All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodness || [Is] as a flower of the field: ⁷Grass has withered, the flower faded, || For the Spirit of YHWH blew on it, || Surely the people [is] grass; ⁸Grass has withered, the flower faded, || But a word of our God rises forever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the word: Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Isaiah 55:10, Isaiah 55:11, Psalms 119:89-91, Zechariah 1:6, Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, John 10:35, John 12:34, Romans 3:1-3, 1 Peter 1:25

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 44:29 - my words Luke 16:17 - than Luke 21:33 - General James 1:11 - so 1 Peter 1:4 - fadeth Revelation 14:6 - everlasting

Cross-References

Genesis 40:10
And in the vine [are] three branches, and it [is] as it were flourishing; gone up has its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes;

Genesis 40:11
and Pharaoh's cup [is] in my hand, and I take the grapes and press them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I give the cup into the hand of Pharaoh."

Genesis 40:15
for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they have put me in the pit [for]."

Genesis 40:16
And the chief of the bakers sees that he has interpreted good, and he says to Joseph, "I also [am] in a dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread [are] on my head,

Psalms 25:14
The secret of YHWH [is] for those fearing Him, || And His covenant—to cause them to know.

Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, "Seek to those having familiar spirits, || And to wizards, who chatter and mutter," || Does a people not seek to its God? To the dead on behalf of the living?

Daniel 2:11
and the thing that the king is asking [is] precious, and there are no others that show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

Daniel 2:28
but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar that which [is] to be in the latter end of the days. Your dream and the visions of your head on your bed are these:

Daniel 2:47
The king has answered Daniel and said, "Of a truth [it is] that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret."

Daniel 4:8
And at last Daniel has come up before me, whose name [is] Belteshazzar—according to the name of my god—and in whom [is] the spirit of the holy gods, and the dream before him I have told:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth,.... Which is repeated, to raise attention to it, as being a matter of importance, and for the confirmation of it:

but the word of our God shall stand for ever; the Apostle Peter adds, by way of explanation,

and this is the word, which by the Gospel is preached unto you; who seems to distinguish the word from the Gospel, by which it is preached, and to intend Christ the essential Word; who stands or abides for ever as a divine Person; in his office as Mediator, being Prophet, Priest, and King for ever; in the efficacy of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; and in the fulness of his grace: it is true of the written word or Gospel, which remains, is everlasting, and will stand and continue, notwithstanding the persecutions of tyrants, the craft of false teachers, the reproach of ungodly men, and the death of the best of men, even of ministers; though all flesh is grass, fading and withering, the word of God is fresh and lively, firm and durable; and so it is as transcribed into the hearts of men, where it becomes the ingrafted word, and issues in everlasting life. It may be applied to God's word of promise, which is for ever settled in heaven, and is always fulfilled.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The grass withereth ... - This is repeated from the former verse for the sake of emphasis, or strong confirmation.

But the word of our God - The phrase ‘word of our God,’ refers either to his promise to be the protector and deliverer of his people in their captivity, or, in general, means that all his promises shall be firm and unchanging.

Shall stand for ever - Amidst all revolutions among men, his promise shall be firm. It shall not only live amidst the changes of dynasties, and the revolutions of empires, but it shall continue forever and ever. This is designed for support to an afflicted and oppressed people; and it must have been to them, in their bondage, the source of high consolation. But it is equally so now. Amidst all the changes on earth; the revolutions of empires; the vanishing of kingdoms, God is the same, and his promises are unfailing. We see the grass wither at the return of autumn, or in the drought: we see the flower of the field lose its beauty, and decay; we see man rejoicing in his vigor and his health, cut down in an instant; we see cities fall, and kingdoms lose their power and vanish from among nations, but God changes not. He presides in all these revolutions, and sits calm and unmoved amidst all these changes. Not one of his promises shall fail; and at the end of all the changes which human things shall undergo, Yahweh, the God of his people, will be the same.