2 Kings 19:26

2 Kings chapter 19 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.25Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

v.26This passage

v.27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 102:11

    My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Psalms 92:7

    When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

  • Numbers 14:9

    Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

  • James 1:10

    and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

  • Psalms 129:6

    Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

  • Jeremiah 50:36

    A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.