² For they shall soon be cut down ^(A)like the grass,
And wither as the green herb.

¹¹ There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.

^9 (A)The earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

^4 (A)All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
^(B)All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as ^(C)fruit falling from a fig tree.

²⁷ Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.

^6 (A)Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For ^(B)the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
^(C)The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be ^(D)forever,
And My righteousness will not be ^[a]abolished.