Psalms 129:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
  • Isa 37:27 : 27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
  • Jer 17:5-6 : 5 Thus said Jehovah: Cursed `is' the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth. 6 And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.
  • Matt 13:6 : 6 and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through not having root, they withered,
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 And their inhabitants `are' feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

  • 27And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.

  • 26And their inhabitants `are' feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!

  • 5Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.

  • 7When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

  • 7That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

  • 12While it `is' in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

  • 11My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

  • Ps 83:16-17
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    16Fill their faces `with' shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

    17They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

    8As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

    9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

  • 24High they were `for' a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all `others' they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people `is' grass;

    8Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

  • 10For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

  • 18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

  • 6He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.

  • 12Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!

  • 16From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

  • 16Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

  • 13O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

  • 15They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29For `men' are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.

    30For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

  • 24Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

  • 16There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

  • 3Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

  • 17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

  • 26They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

  • 24Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

  • 25Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller.

  • 15Mortal man! as grass `are' his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

    10They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

    11for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

  • 22Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

  • 6and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through not having root, they withered,

  • 5They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

  • 16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

  • 4Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.'

  • 12They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf `into' a threshing-floor.

  • 14They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.

  • 4And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That `is' on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it `is' yet in his hand he swalloweth it.

  • 3Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

  • 15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.