Psalm 129:6

New English Translation

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

2 Kings 19:26

Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Psalm 37:2

For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

Isaiah 37:27

Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.