Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
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- Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither like the green herb.
- Ps 92:7 : 7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
- 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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
- Jer 17:5-6 : 5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Matt 13:6 : 6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. 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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
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2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither like the green herb.
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27Therefore 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 a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
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26Therefore 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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
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5Let them be disappointed and turned backward, All those who hate Zion.
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7Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
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7With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
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12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
- Ps 83:16-172 verses74%
16Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
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24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
- Isa 40:7-82 verses73%
7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.
8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
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10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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18That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
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6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
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12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
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16His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
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16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
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13My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.
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15Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.
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24Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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16There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
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3Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
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17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
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26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
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24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
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15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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9As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, Into miry pits, from where they never rise.
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10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
11For 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.
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22Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
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5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
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16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
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4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
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12But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
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14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
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4and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
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3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.