Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
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Referenced Verses
- 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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2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither like the green herb.
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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.
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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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5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, All those who hate Zion.
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7 Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
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7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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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.
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12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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16 Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
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24 They 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.
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7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
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10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
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6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
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12 Therefore 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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16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
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16 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
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13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.
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15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.
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24 Yes, 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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16 There 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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3 Therefore 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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17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
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26 Let 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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24 Therefore 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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25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
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15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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9 As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, Into miry pits, from where they never rise.
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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.
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22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
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6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
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5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
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16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
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4 How 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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12 But 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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14 Let 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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4 and 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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3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.