Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, 1 they were dismayed and put to shame; 1 they were as the esev of the sadeh, 1 and as the green herb, 1 as the khatzir (grass) on the gagot (rooftops) 1 is sun-scorched before it is grown up. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

26Hast thou not heard long ago, 1 how I have done it; 1 and of yemei kedem (days of old), 1 that I have formed it? 1 Now have I brought it to pass, 1 that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 1

28But I know thy sitting, 1 and thy going out, and thy coming in, 1 and thy rage against Me. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 14:9Only rebel not ye against Hashem, neither fear ye the Am HaAretz; for they are lachmeinu (our bread): their protection is departed from them, and Hashem is with us: fear them not.

Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the khatzir (grass), 1 and wither as the green desheh (herb, plant). 1

Psalms 92:7An ish ba'ar (brutish, senseless man, dolt) knoweth not; 1 neither doth a kesil (fool) understand this. 1

Psalms 127:1(Shir HaMa'alot, of Sh'lomo) 1 they that build it labor in vain; 1 except Hashem is shomer over the city, 1 the shomair (watchman) stands guard in vain. 1

Isaiah 19:16In that day shall Mitzrayim be like nashim; and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the yad Hashem Tzva'os, which He shaketh against it.

Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up through her rows of vines, and cut down; 1 but make not a full end; 1 take away her branches; 1 for they are not Hashemʼs. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:22-38

Sennacherib Threatened; Sennacherib Destroyed. ( b. c. 710.) 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and… Read the whole commentary →

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