Verse 12

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

Referenced Verses

• Jer 17:6 : 6 They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.
• Matt 13:20 : 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
• Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow. 11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
• Ps 129:6-7 : 6 May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, 7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!