Isaiah 51:12

God Himself is the comforter of His people, so He asks why they fear mere mortal man who withers like grass.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 118:6The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
• Isa 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
• 1 Pet 1:24For 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:
• John 14:26–27But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
• John 14:18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
• 2 Cor 1:3–5Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
• Jas 1:10–11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• Isa 66:13As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
• Isa 51:3For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• Matt 10:28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Isa 57:15–18For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Luke 12:4–5And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
• Isa 40:6–7The 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:
• Ps 90:5–6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
• 2 Cor 7:5–6For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
• Prov 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the LORD.
• Isa 51:7–8Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
• Ps 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
• Ps 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Dan 3:16–18Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
• Acts 9:31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

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