Psalm 129:6

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

Isaiah 37:27

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Matthew 13:6

but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.

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 soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
Psalm 92:7
that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
Matthew 13:6
but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.

General references

Job 8:12
While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.
Psalm 37:2
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

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