Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
New American Standard Bible
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the
As
King James Version
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
International Standard Version
Their inhabitants are devoid of power, and are terrified and put to shame. They've become like plants in the field, like green shoots, like grass on rooftops, scorched by the east wind.
A Conservative Version
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb. As the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
American Standard Version
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.
Amplified
“Therefore their inhabitants had little power,
They were terrorized and shamed;
They were like the grass of the field and the green vegetation,
Like grass on the housetops and like a field [of grain] scorched before it is grown.
Bible in Basic English
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
Darby Translation
And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
Julia Smith Translation
And their inhabitants short of hand; they were dismayed and ashamed; they were the greet herb of the field and the verdure, and the tender grass of the enclosure of the roofs, and a blasting before it rose up.
King James 2000
Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.
Modern King James verseion
And their inhabitants were short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For their inhabiters shall be like lame men, brought in fear and confounded. They shall be like the grass and green herbs in the field, like the hay upon housetops, that withereth afore it be grown up.
NET Bible
Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
The Emphasized Bible
And their inhabitants, being powerless, were overthrown and put to shame - They became - Grass of the field and Young herbage, Grass on housetops, and Seed parched before it came up.
Webster
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.
World English Bible
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
Youngs Literal Translation
And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
Themes
Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Sennacherib king of » Reproved for pride and blasphemy
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Grass » Illustrative » (on tops of houses,) of the wicked
Man » A social being » As grass
Interlinear
Yashab
Yad
Chathath
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 37:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Answer
26
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities
into piles of rubble.
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
your going out and your coming in,
and your raging against Me.
Cross References
Psalm 129:6
which withers before it grows up
Numbers 14:9
Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them.
2 Kings 19:26
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
Psalm 37:2
and wilt like tender green plants.
Psalm 90:5-6
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
Psalm 92:7
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.
Psalm 103:15
he blooms like a flower of the field;
Psalm 127:1-2
A Solomonic song of ascents.
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.
Isaiah 19:16
On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.
Isaiah 40:6-8
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Jeremiah 5:10
but do not finish them off.
Prune away her shoots,
for they do not belong to the Lord.
Jeremiah 37:10
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army that is fighting with you,
James 1:10-11
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
1 Peter 1:24
For
and all its glory
The grass withers, and the flower falls,