Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:
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
A Conservative Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
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,
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 They shall be ashamed and draw back all hating Zion. 6 They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out: 7 He harvesting filled not his hand; and he heaping together, not his arm.
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away.
2 Kings 19:26
And the inhabitants were short of hand, they were terrified and they were ashamed; they were the grass of the field and the green herbage, and the grass of the roofs, and blasted before it rose up.
Psalm 92:7
In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
Isaiah 37:27
And their inhabitants short of hand; they were dismayed and ashamed; they were the greet herb of the field and the verdure, and the tender grass of the enclosure of the roofs, and a blasting before it rose up.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.
Matthew 13:6
And the sun having risen, it was parched up; and for the not having a root, it was dried up.