Isaiah 37:27

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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.

Their inhabitants

As the grass of

Bible References

Their inhabitants

In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord

builds the house,

They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord

guards the city,

The watchman keeps awake in vain.

“Go up through her vine rows and destroy,
But do not execute a complete destruction;
Strip away her branches,
For they are not the Lord’s.

For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

As the grass of

A voice says, “Call out.”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”

All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.

You have swept them away like a flood, they

fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

For,
“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,