Psalm 37:2

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

2 Kings 19:26

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

Isaiah 37:27

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.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

Matthew 13:6

And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

General references

Bible References

As the grass

Psalm 37:2
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

General references

Job 8:12
When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
Psalm 37:2
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

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