2 Kings 19:26 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁶ ‘And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame, they were as the grass of the field and the green plants, as the grass on the house-tops and withered before it came 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.

2 Kings 19:26 Cross References

Genesis 41:23

then saw seven heads, withered, lean, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.

Genesis 41:6

and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 127:1

If יהוה  does not build the house, Its builders have laboured in vain. If יהוה  does not guard the city, The watchman has stayed awake in vain.

Psalm 92:7

When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever.

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!

Jeremiah 37:10

‘For though you had smitten the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would get up, each man in his tent, and burn the city with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Baḇ

Jeremiah 51:32

and the fords have been captured, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the soldiers are startled.

Numbers 11:23

And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Is the arm of יהוה  too short? Now see whether My word meets you or not!”

Numbers 14:9

“Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and יהוה  is with us. Do not fear them.”

Matthew 10:27

“What I say to you in the dark, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

1 Peter 1:24

because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,