2  For they will soon fade ^zlike the grass

and wither like the green herb.

15  As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

26  while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,

are dismayed and confounded,

and have become like plants of the field

and like tender grass,

^slike grass on the housetops,

blighted before it is grown.

6  A voice says, “Cry!”

And I said,¹ “What shall I cry?”

^lAll flesh is grass,

and all its beauty² is like the flower of the field.

7  The grass withers, the flower fades

when the breath of the Lord blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

8  The grass withers, the flower fades,

but the word of our God will stand forever.

^s“All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,