◄ Psalm 129:6 {128:6} ►
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Good News Translation
May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,

Contemporary English Version
May they be like grass on the flat roof of a house, grass that dries up as soon as it sprouts.

New American Bible
May they be like grass on the rooftops withered in early growth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

as the grass

Psalm 37:2 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Psalm 92:7 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

Context
The Cords of the Wicked
…5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. 6Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:7Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:27
That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

2 Kings 19:26
And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

Psalm 37:2
For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Isaiah 37:27
The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.

Psalm 129:5
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