Isaiah 37:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 corn before it be grown up.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ The inhabitants of them were weak of hand: they trembled and were confounded. They became like the grass of the field and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.

Isaiah 37:27 Cross References

Genesis 41:6

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

2 Kings 19:26

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.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Psalm 129:6

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

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

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 19:16

It In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

Jeremiah 37:10

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans 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 5:10

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches: for they are not the LORD'S.

Ezekiel 35:13

And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

Numbers 14:9

Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

Matthew 10:27

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

1 Peter 1:24

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