Isaiah 40:8

Translations

Modern

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Traditional

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

Literal

The grass withers, the flower fades, and the word of our God stands forever.”

Latin

…exsiccatum est fœnum, et cecidit flos; verbum autem Domini nostri manet in æternum.

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Hebrew

English

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Notes

Isaiah 40:8

the word of our God stands forever: All of God’s words, including his plans and the written word, will succeed. God might change human expectations, but everything will follow his wise plan (see Isaiah 14:24; 55:8–11; see also Matthew 25:34).

Isaiah 40:6–8

All humans are mortal and temporary. In contrast, God continues with his plans and succeeds. Time does not stop him from doing what he wants (see Isaiah 14:24).

Isaiah 40:1–55:13

This section shares the good news of God's coming salvation. The Lord will support his people and judge His enemies. Salvation will occur through the arrival, suffering, and exaltation of the Lord's servant, the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 40:1–31

This chapter introduces chapters 40–66. In this section, comfort means the result of God's merciful actions toward people in the future. It includes encouragement, strength, and acceptance.

God wants to rescue his people (Isaiah 40:1–11) and is fully capable of doing so (40:12–26). The exiles needed to trust God's promises and wait for their rescue (Isaiah 40:27–31; see also 30:15–18).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Death God’s Faithfulness to His People God’s Servant God’s Word Salvation in Isaiah The Word

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
1 Peter 1:25
…but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
Psalm 119:89–91
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Matthew 5:18
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Isaiah 55:10–11
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Isaiah 46:10–11
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
John 10:35
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
Isaiah 59:21
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
John 12:34
The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
Zechariah 1:6
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
Romans 3:1–3
What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

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