‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

I lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

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

In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;
On their housetops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

“Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares the Lord.

“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven,
And those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house.

The one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house;

Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.

On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.

On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.