Isaiah 40:8
Good News Translation
Yes, grass withers and flowers fade, but the word of our God endures forever."

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

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

New American Bible
The grass withers, the flower wilts, but the word of our God stands forever.”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the word

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

Isaiah 55:10,11 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: . . .

Psalm 119:89-91 For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven. . . .

Zechariah 1:6 But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.

Matthew 5:18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass away.

John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

John 12:34 The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

Romans 3:1-3 What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? . . .

Context
The Word of the Lord Stands Forever
7The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: 8The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever.
Cross References
Matthew 5:18
For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.

1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Psalm 111:8
All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, made in truth and equity.

Psalm 119:89
For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.

Isaiah 46:10
Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:

Isaiah 55:11
So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Isaiah 59:21
This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Jeremiah 44:29
And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be accomplished indeed against you for evil.

Isaiah 40:7
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