Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
New American Standard Bible
Which withers before it
King James Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Holman Bible
which withers before it grows up
International Standard Version
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root
American Standard Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;
Amplified
Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,
Darby Translation
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:
King James 2000
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,
Modern King James verseion
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which dries up before it grows up,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them be even as the hay upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be grown up;
NET Bible
May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
New Heart English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
The Emphasized Bible
Let them become like the grass of housetops, which, before it is pulled up, hath withered;
Webster
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:
World English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
Youngs Literal Translation
They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 129:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection Of The Oppressed
5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 7 with which the reaper fills not his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
2 Kings 19:26
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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Isaiah 37:27
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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.
Matthew 13:6
But when the sun was risen, they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered.