Psalm 129:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

Common English Bible

⁶ Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Psalm 129:6 Cross References

Genesis 41:23

and, behold, seven ears, withered, 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 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 37:27

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.

Matthew 13:6

and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.