Isaiah 37:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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 of grain blasted before it is grown or is in stalk.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 a field of grain before it is grown up.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Their citizens have lost their power; they are frightened and dismayed. They’ve become like plants in a field, tender green shoots, the grass on rooftops, blasted by the east wind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Their inhabitants had unsteady hands. They trembled and were confused. They became like the plants of the field, and the grass of the pastures, and like the weeds on the rooftops, which wither before they are mature.

Isaiah 37:27 Cross References

Genesis 41:6

And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

Psalm 129:6

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

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 92:7

that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand which the Lord of hosts shakes over them.

Jeremiah 37:10

For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 5:10

“Go up through her vine-rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

Ezekiel 35:13

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

Numbers 14:9

Only, do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.

1 Peter 1:24

for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,