Psalm 129:6

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Then seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprang up after them.

2 Kings 19:26

Their inhabitants are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are like grass of the field and new vegetation, grass on the roof tops, scorched before it stands.

Psalm 37:2

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

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked spring up like grass and though all the workers of iniquity flourish, they will be destroyed forever:

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength; they were dismayed and humiliated; they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, they were scorched. And because they did not take root, they withered away.