Verse 6

Let them be as the grass upon 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 When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may 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 grain blighted before it is grown up.
  • Jer 17:5-6 : 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD. 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, in a salt land and not inhabited.
  • Matt 13:6 : 6 But when the sun came up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
  • 2 Kgs 19:26 : 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of 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 grain blighted before it is grown up.