Psalms 129:6
Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
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- Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
- 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.
- Isa 37:27 : 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.
- Jer 17:5-6 : 5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord. 6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
- Matt 13:6 : 6 And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.
- 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.
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2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
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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.
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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.
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6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
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