Verse 6

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

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 evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
• Isa 37:27 : 27 Therefore their inhabitants had 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 a field before its crop has grown.
• 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 like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.