Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

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 be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; 7 with which the reaper doesn't fill 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 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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