Flowers

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

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, — read the full passage →

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. — read the full passage →

As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. — read the full passage →

three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. — read the full passage →

The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

He carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lamp stand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. — read the full passage →

and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; — read the full passage →

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

It was a hand breadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.

I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

It was a hand breadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; — read the full passage →

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover — read the full passage →

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall;

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! — read the full passage →

When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, — read the full passage →

In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.

You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, — read the full passage →

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. — read the full passage →

Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. — read the full passage →

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, — read the full passage →

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

On the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. — read the full passage →

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. — read the full passage →

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, — read the full passage →

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon. — read the full passage →

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; — read the full passage →

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” — read the full passage →

Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! — read the full passage →

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? — read the full passage →

Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. — read the full passage →

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” — read the full passage →