Verse 6
Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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.