2 Kings 19:26 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ That is why their inhabitants had little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like plants of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, blasted before it is grown up.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 grain blasted before it is grown up.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Their citizens have lost their power. They are frightened and ashamed. They’ve become like plants in a field, tender green shoots, the grass on rooftops, burned up before it matures.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand: they trembled and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

2 Kings 19:26 Cross References

Genesis 41:23

and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

Genesis 41:6

And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 127:1

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalm 92:7

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:

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Jeremiah 37:10

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chalde´ans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51:32

and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Numbers 11:23

And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

Numbers 14:9

Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: