Lexicon :: Strong's G5528 - chortos

Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so.

God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land,[fn] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

“It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

“Every creature that lives and moves will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.

Let my teaching fall like rain

and my word settle like dew,

like gentle rain on new grass

and showers on tender plants.

“Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf?

Will you chase after dry straw?

Look at Behemoth,

which I made along with you.

He eats grass like cattle.

No arrow can make him flee;

slingstones become like stubble to him.

For they wither quickly like grass

and wilt like tender green plants.

May there be plenty of grain in the land;

may it wave on the tops of the mountains.

May its crops be like Lebanon.

May people flourish in the cities

like the grass of the field.

though the wicked sprout like grass

and all evildoers flourish,

they will be eternally destroyed.

My heart is suffering, withered like grass;

I even forget to eat my food.

My days are like a lengthening shadow,

and I wither away like grass.

As for man, his days are like grass —

he blooms like a flower of the field;

He causes grass to grow for the livestock

and provides crops for man to cultivate,

producing food from the earth,

They devoured all the vegetation in their land

and consumed the produce of their land.

They exchanged their glory[fn][fn]

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,

which withers before it grows up[fn]

who covers the sky with clouds,

prepares rain for the earth,

and causes grass to grow on the hills.

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,

but his favor is like dew on the grass.

When hay is removed and new growth appears

and the grain from the hills is gathered in,

Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

The Waters of Nimrim are desolate;

the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,

and the vegetation has vanished.

for the ground of my people

growing thorns and briers,

indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

A voice was saying, “Cry out! ”

Another said,[fn] “What should I cry out? ”

“All humanity is grass,

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

“They will sprout among[fn] the grass

like poplars by flowing streams.

I ​— ​I am the one who comforts you.

Who are you that you should fear humans who die,

or a son of man who is given up like grass?

“Speak as follows: ‘This is what the LORD declares: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field, like newly cut grain after the reaper with no one to gather it.

How long will the land mourn

and the grass of every field wither?

Because of the evil of its residents,

animals and birds have been swept away,

for the people have said,

“He cannot see what our end will be.”[fn]

Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights

panting for air like jackals.

Their eyes fail

because there are no green plants.

“But leave the stump with its roots in the ground

and with a band of iron and bronze around it

in the tender grass of the field.

Let him be drenched with dew from the sky

and share the plants of the earth

with the animals.

“You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals. You will feed on grass like cattle and be drenched with dew from the sky for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms, and he gives them to anyone he wants.

“You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals, and you will feed on grass like cattle for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms, and he gives them to anyone he wants.”

“He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over human kingdoms and sets anyone he wants over them.

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small? ”