Grass and flower imagery uses quickly growing and quickly fading plants to picture human frailty, temporary beauty, passing wealth, and the contrast between perishing flesh and God’s enduring word.
Grass and flower imagery uses quickly growing and quickly fading plants to picture human frailty, temporary beauty, passing wealth, and the contrast between perishing flesh and God’s enduring word.
A mortality-and-transience motif in which grass, field flowers, and fading blossoms contrast short-lived human splendour with divine permanence, covenant mercy, or the abiding word of God.
These examples show how Grass, Flower, and Fading-Life Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
he cometh forth like a flower
The flower images human life as brief, beautiful, and quickly cut down.
soon be cut down like the grass
Grass imagery stresses the swift end of the wicked.
they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass
Grass portrays the shortness of human life under divine judgment.
his days are as grass
Grass and flower imagery frame human frailty before God’s mercy.
all flesh is grass
Grass contrasts perishing humanity with God’s enduring word.
the grass withereth, the flower fadeth
Withering grass magnifies the permanence of the word of God.
the grass of the field
Grass clothed by God teaches trust against anxious care.
as the flower of the grass he shall pass away
The flower warns the rich about passing glory.
all flesh is as grass
Peter uses grass imagery to contrast flesh with the abiding gospel word.
all green grass was burnt up
Burned grass contributes to judgment imagery in the trumpet vision.
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