Psalms 129:6
Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
In Context
5Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:26This 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.
Psalms 92:7\92:6\A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
Jeremiah 17:5This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the 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 →