... On the whole, 1 Peter follows the Septuagint more closely than it does the Masoretic Text. Isaiah 40:7 is missing from both the Septuagint and 1 Peter, and both the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text omit the definite article before pasa sarx (“all flesh”). Further, the Septuagint changes the Masoretic Text’s “flower of the field” to “flower of grass,” which is followed by the best reading of 1 Peter (even though the New International Version arbitrarily translates “flowers of the field”; the English Standard Version has “flower of grass”). The Masoretic Text tells us that the flowers “fade”; both the Septuagint and 1 Peter say that they “fall.” On the other hand, while the Septuagint reads pasa doxa anthrōpou (“all human glory”), 1 Peter follows the Masoretic Text in reading pasa doxa autēs (“all its glory,” with “its” pointing to “all flesh”) ...