Psalm 129:6

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 41:23

Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,

2 Kings 19:26

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

Psalm 37:2

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

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

Isaiah 37:27

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted[3] before it is grown.

Matthew 13:6

but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.