Isaiah 40:7 - Exposition

The flower fadeth: because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. When the hot winds, which God sends, blow in spring-time, the flowers fade; when a destroying breath from him (see Isaiah 30:33 ) passes over the generations of men, they perish. Surely the people is grass . Either a mere repetition of "all flesh is grass" ( Isaiah 40:6 ) with an asseveration, or an intimation that "the people" of Israel is not exempt from the lot of mankind in general, but shares it.