Isaiah 37:27

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

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  • Ps 129:6 : 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Armies, which he shakes over them.
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
  • Num 14:9 : 9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 103:15 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
  • Ps 127:1-2 : 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

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