Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
In Context
5Let them be put to shame and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
7with which the reaper fills not his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:26Therefore 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.
Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
Jeremiah 17:5Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 129:6-8
God's Regard to His Church. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord . The psalmist, having triumphed in the defeat of the many designs that had been laid as deep as hell to ruin the church, here concludes his psalm as… Read the whole commentary →