Isaiah 37:27
Isaiah chapter 37 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore 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 · 1901Therefore 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.
Context
v.26Hast 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.27This passage
v.28But 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 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
- 1 Peter 1:24
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
- Psalms 127:1
Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.
- Isaiah 19:16
In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.
- Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;
- Jeremiah 37:10
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.