Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
Note DSS, some MT manuscripts, and some LXX manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most MT manuscripts on the rooftops and terraced fields
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.
Note of small…: Heb. short of hand
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
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 grain before it is grown up.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- their inhabitants
- Isaiah 19:16; Numbers 14:9; 2 Kings 19:26; Psalm 127:1, 2; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 37:10
- of small power
- Heb. short of hand. as the grass of.
- Isaiah 40:6–8; Psalm 37:2; Psalm 90:5, 6; Psalm 92:7; Psalm 103:15; Psalm 129:6; James 1:10, 11; 1 Peter 1:24