Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Holman Bible
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
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.
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 Didst thou not hear to remoteness I did it? from days of old and I formed it? now did I bring it and thou shalt be to lay waste fortified cities into straits. 27 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. 28 And thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, I knew; and thine anger against me.
Cross References
Psalm 129:6
They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:
Numbers 14:9
But against Jehovah ye shall not rebel, and ye shall not be afraid of the people of the land; for they our bread: for their shadow removed from them and Jehovah with us; ye shall not be afraid of them.
2 Kings 19:26
And the inhabitants were short of hand, they were terrified and they were ashamed; they were the grass of the field and the green herbage, and the grass of the roofs, and blasted before it rose up.
Psalm 37:2
For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away.
Psalm 90:5-6
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Psalm 92:7
In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
Psalm 103:15
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
Psalm 127:1-2
Song of ascensions to Solomon. If Jehovah shall not build the house, they building it, in it labored in vain. If Jehovah shall not watch the city, he watching, watched in vain.
Isaiah 19:16
In that day Egypt shall be as women; and it trembled and was afraid from the face of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of armies which he shook over it
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah.
Jeremiah 37:10
For if ye struck all the army of the Chaldeans warring with you, and men thrust through remained among them, they shall arise a man in his tent and burn this city in fire.
James 1:10-11
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out: