Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

They were

James 1:10
but a rich man should rejoice in being brought low, for like flowers among the herbage rich men will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
"All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;