Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

Holman Bible

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,
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,

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,

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Protection Of The Oppressed

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth 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 corn blasted before it be grown up.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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 corn blasted before it be grown up.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Matthew 13:6

And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

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