Psalms 129:6

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
  • Isa 37:27 : 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
  • Jer 17:5-6 : 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
  • Matt 13:6 : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

  • 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

    6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

  • 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • Ps 83:16-17
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    16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

    17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

    8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

    9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

    8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

  • 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

  • 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

  • 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

  • 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

    30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

  • 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

  • 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

  • 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

  • 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

  • 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

  • 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

  • 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

  • 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

  • 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

  • 15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.