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Isaiah 40:4–6

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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
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From verse 4

  1. Luke 3:5Rank 1 from verse 4
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    5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

  2. Ezekiel 21:26Rank 2 from verse 4
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    26Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

  3. Luke 18:14Rank 3 from verse 4
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    14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

  4. Isaiah 42:15–16Rank 4 from verse 4
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    15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

    16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

  5. Isaiah 45:2Rank 5 from verse 4
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    2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  6. Ezekiel 17:24Rank 6 from verse 4
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    24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

  7. Job 40:11–13Rank 7 from verse 4
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    11Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

    12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

    13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  8. Isaiah 2:12–15Rank 8 from verse 4
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    12For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

    13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

    14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

    15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

  9. Luke 1:52–53Rank 9 from verse 4
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    52He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

    53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

  10. Psalms 113:7–8Rank 10 from verse 4
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    7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

    8That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

  11. 1 Samuel 2:8Rank 11 from verse 4
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    8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

  12. Isaiah 42:11Rank 12 from verse 4
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    11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

  13. Proverbs 2:15Rank 13 from verse 4
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    15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

From verse 5

  1. Habakkuk 2:14Rank 1 from verse 5
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    14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

  2. Isaiah 52:10Rank 2 from verse 5
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    10The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

  3. Joel 2:28Rank 3 from verse 5
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    28¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

  4. 2 Corinthians 4:6Rank 4 from verse 5
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    6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  5. Isaiah 60:1Rank 5 from verse 5
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    1ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

  6. Luke 3:6Rank 6 from verse 5
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    6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

  7. Acts 2:17Rank 7 from verse 5
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    17And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

  8. Isaiah 11:9Rank 8 from verse 5
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    9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

  9. Isaiah 6:3Rank 9 from verse 5
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    3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

  10. Psalms 72:19Rank 10 from verse 5
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    19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

  11. Isaiah 58:14Rank 11 from verse 5
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    14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  12. John 1:14Rank 12 from verse 5
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    14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

  13. Isaiah 66:23Rank 13 from verse 5
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    23And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

  14. Revelation 21:23Rank 14 from verse 5
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    23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

  15. 2 Corinthians 3:18Rank 15 from verse 5
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    18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  16. Hebrews 1:3Rank 16 from verse 5
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    3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

  17. Isaiah 1:20Rank 17 from verse 5
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    20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  18. Isaiah 35:2Rank 18 from verse 5
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    2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

  19. John 12:41Rank 19 from verse 5
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    41These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

  20. Zechariah 2:13Rank 20 from verse 5
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    13Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

  21. Isaiah 49:6Rank 21 from verse 5
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    6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

  22. Jeremiah 9:12Rank 22 from verse 5
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    12¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

  23. John 17:2Rank 23 from verse 5
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    2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

  24. Micah 4:4Rank 24 from verse 5
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    4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

  25. Psalms 102:16Rank 25 from verse 5
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    16When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

  26. Psalms 96:6Rank 26 from verse 5
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    6Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

  27. Isaiah 66:16Rank 27 from verse 5
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    16For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

  28. Jeremiah 32:27Rank 28 from verse 5
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    27Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

  29. Luke 2:10–14Rank 29 from verse 5
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    10And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

    11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

    12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

    13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

    14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

  30. Luke 2:32Rank 30 from verse 5
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    32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

From verse 6

  1. 1 Peter 1:24–25Rank 1 from verse 6
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    24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

    25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

  2. Psalms 103:15–16Rank 2 from verse 6
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    15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  3. James 1:10–11Rank 3 from verse 6
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    10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  4. Psalms 102:11Rank 4 from verse 6
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    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  5. Job 14:2Rank 5 from verse 6
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    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  6. Isaiah 58:1Rank 6 from verse 6
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    1CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

  7. Psalms 90:5–6Rank 7 from verse 6
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    5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  8. Psalms 92:7Rank 8 from verse 6
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    7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  9. Isaiah 37:27Rank 9 from verse 6
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    27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  10. Isaiah 40:3Rank 10 from verse 6
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    3¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

  11. Isaiah 61:1–2Rank 11 from verse 6
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    1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

    2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

  12. Jeremiah 2:2Rank 12 from verse 6
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    2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

  13. Jeremiah 31:6Rank 13 from verse 6
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    6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God.

  14. Isaiah 12:6Rank 14 from verse 6
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    6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  15. Hosea 5:8Rank 15 from verse 6
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    8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.

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Isaiah 40:4

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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exalted

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Raised, lifted up, set on high, promoted, honoured, magnified, praised, or increased in position, power, safety, expression, or estimation.

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mountain

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Sense 1: A great natural elevation of land or an elevated region. Sense 2: A figure of something lofty or formidable.

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made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

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low

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Sense 1: Not high; beneath in place, rank, amount, strength, or condition. Sense 2: Humble or brought down.

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crooked

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1. Bent, winding, or not straight. 2. Figuratively, morally perverse or turned aside from what is right.

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straight

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1. Direct and not crooked, or proceeding without turning aside. 2. Upright, right, or made right.

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rough

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Uneven, rugged, or not smooth; by extension, coarse, harsh, or violent.

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places

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1. Physical locations or rooms. 2. Positions or offices. 3. Occasions, circumstances, or passages.

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plain

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1. A level tract of land. 2. Clear or evident. 3. Simple or unadorned.

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Isaiah 40:5

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glory

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Sense 1: Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting. Sense 2: To boast, exult, take pride, or rejoice in a person or thing.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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revealed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of reveal, meaning to uncover, disclose, show, or make known what was hidden or unknown.

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COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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see

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Sense 1: To perceive or behold with the eyes or in a vision. Sense 2: To observe, examine, discover, ascertain, consider, understand, know, or recognize. Sense 3: To visit, meet, converse with, or be in the presence of. Sense 4: To experience, undergo, endure, or enjoy. Sense 5: To attend to, take care, ensure, or beware.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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mouth

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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.

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spoken

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1. Uttered, said, declared, addressed, or communicated in words. 2. In 'spoken of,' mentioned, described, or referred to. 3. In 'spoken for,' addressed by request or commendation on another's behalf; in a marriage setting, sought as a spouse. 4. In 'spoken against' or 'evil spoken of,' opposed, contradicted, denounced, or reviled.

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DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 40:6

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cry

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1. A vocal call, shout, proclamation, alarm, wail, or other utterance, often loud. 2. An earnest appeal, prayer, complaint, or outcry for help, justice, or attention. 3. As a verb, to call out, shout, proclaim, wail, appeal, pray, or complain; figuratively, to bear urgent witness or demand notice.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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grass

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Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.

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flower

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Sense 1: The blossom of a plant. Sense 2: Figuratively, beauty, vigour, or what quickly fades.

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40:3¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

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40:5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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40:6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

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40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

40:8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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