In the Bible there are at least five words translated into "grass" from the Hebrew, while the Greek only uses one word, designating a garden, pasture, or a courtyard garden, all referring to indicate something green. One connotation emphasizes impermanence of growing things, associated with flesh—here today and gone tomorrow. The loss of grass also connotes divine judgment and punishment. The appearance of grass on the third day indicates that God does everything in order, providing food for His creation in advance. Conversely, reprobate human governments want to destroy pasture to cut down on livestock flatulence, but instead the gas significantly increases by the substitute feeds created by mankind. When the clueless settlers plowed up the grasslands to plant row crops, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the resultant curse. Mankind continues to destroy the pasturelands to this very day. When they try to improve upon God's purpose for creation, they bring a curse upon the entirety of civilization. As the children of Jacob have forsaken the covenant with Almighty God, they have lost their identity and have fallen away from God's protection. The transience of grass (symbolic of all mortal creation) contrasts with the permanence of God's holy and spiritual law, denigrated by all the world's religions. If physical life (symbolized by the grass of the earth) withers away, God's called-out ones given "God's instruction" (the Word of the Lord) will endure and thrive forever.