²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

⁴ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.