Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Which withers before it
King James Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Holman Bible
which withers before it grows up
International Standard Version
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root
A Conservative Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
American Standard Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;
Amplified
Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
Darby Translation
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:
King James 2000
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,
Modern King James verseion
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which dries up before it grows up,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them be even as the hay upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be grown up;
NET Bible
May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
New Heart English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
The Emphasized Bible
Let them become like the grass of housetops, which, before it is pulled up, hath withered;
Webster
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:
World English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
Youngs Literal Translation
They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 129:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection Of The Oppressed
5
Be
Which withers before it
Or the binder of sheaves his
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
And
2 Kings 19:26
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
Psalm 92:7
And all
It was only that they might be
Isaiah 37:27
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the
As
Jeremiah 17:5-6
“
And makes
And whose heart turns away from the Lord.
Matthew 13:6