Psalms 129:6

WEB

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

KJV

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

BSB

⁶May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

FBV

⁶May they be like grass that grows on a roof that withers before it can be harvested,

Extra References

Psalms 37:2

²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalms 92:7

⁷though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

²⁷Therefore 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.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

⁵The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD. ⁶For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

2 Kings 19:26

²⁶Therefore 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 grain blasted before it has grown up.

Matthew 13:6

⁶When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.