Verse 27

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 129:6 : 6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.
  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Ps 103:15 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
  • Ps 127:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing. 2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.