Verse 6

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will soon wither like grass and fade like green plants.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:
  • Isa 37:27 : 27 Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.
  • Jer 17:5-6 : 5 This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.
  • Matt 13:6 : 6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no roots, they withered away.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 Their inhabitants were powerless; they were dismayed and confounded. They were like plants of the field, tender grass, vegetation sprouting on the roofs, scorched before it can grow.