2 Kings 19:26

What does 2 Kings 19:26 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Kings 19:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And their inhabitants <FI>are<Fi> feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn--before it hath risen up!

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were [as] the growing grass, and [as] the green herb, [As] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be 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.

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