GRASS/PASTURE/FLOWER

Definition:

Probably beauty, goodness.

Scripture:

• Grass and flowers are referred to as goodliness (human goodliness in this context).

Isaiah 40:6-8 (KJV) The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereofis as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grasswithereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

• The beautiful appearance of the rich of this world, is said to be as the flowers and  the grass. 

James 1:10-11 (LSV) but the rich in his becoming low, because he will pass away as a flower of grass; 11 for the sun rose with the burning heat, and withered the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished, so also the rich in his way will fade away!

• Pasture is used in conjunction with beauty here.

Lamentations 1:6 (KJV) And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

• Lilies are compared with glory. Jesus compares lilies with Solomon’s glory. 

Matthew 6:28-29 (KJV) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

• Youth is referred to as the “flower of the age” of a human being. 

1 Samuel 2:32-33 (NKJV) And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age.