Psalm 129:6

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

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Matthew 13:6

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

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Summary

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

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Bible References

As the grass

Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Psalm 92:7
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
Matthew 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

General references

Job 8:12
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.