Lexicon :: Strong's H6212 - ʿēśeḇ

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;

And you shall eat the plants of the field.

Now the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand [with your staff] toward the sky, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat all the plants of the land, all that the hail has left.”

“Let my teaching drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As the light rain upon the tender grass,

And as the spring showers upon the herb.

‘Therefore their inhabitants were powerless,

They were shattered [in spirit] and put to shame;

They were like plants of the field, the green herb,

As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

“You will know also that your descendants will be many,

And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

There will be an abundance of grain in the soil on the top of the [fn]mountains;

Its fruit will wave like [the cedars of] Lebanon,

And those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.

That though the wicked sprout up like grass

And all evildoers flourish,

They will be destroyed forever.

My heart has been struck like grass and withered,

Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];

And as for me, I wither away like grass.

He causes grass to grow for the cattle,

And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,

So that he may bring food from the earth—

And ate up all the vegetation in their land,

And devoured the fruit of their ground.

Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

The king’s wrath terrifies like the roaring of a lion,

But his favor is as [refreshing and nourishing as] dew on the grass.

When the grass is gone, the new growth is seen,

And herbs of the mountain are gathered in,

“Therefore their inhabitants had little power,

They were terrorized and shamed;

They were like the grass of the field and the green vegetation,

Like grass on the housetops and like a field [of grain] scorched before it is grown.

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills

And wither all their vegetation;

I will turn the rivers into coastlands

And dry up the ponds.

How long must the land mourn

And the grass of the countryside wither?

Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,

The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],

Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”

“And the wild donkeys stand on the barren heights;

They pant for air like jackals,

Their eyesight fails

Because there is no grass.

“O Lord GOD, please forgive!

How can Jacob stand,

For he is so small [that he cannot endure this]?”

Then the remnant of Jacob

Shall be among many peoples

Like dew from the LORD,

Like showers on the grass [a source of blessing]

Which [come suddenly and] do not wait for man

Nor delay for the sons of men.

Ask for rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain.

It is the LORD who makes the thunder clouds;

And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.