Isaiah 37:27

Their inhabitants, of little strength, are shattered and ashamed. 1 They are plants in the field, green grass, 1 the grass on the roof or in the field, 1 before the east wind. 1

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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

26Have you not heard how I determined it long ago 1 and worked it out in ancient times? Now I am bringing it to pass. 1 You are here to reduce impregnable cities into heaps of ruins. 1

28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 14:9But do not rebel against Yahweh, and do not fear the people in the land, for they are bread to us. Their protection will be removed from them, because Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them.”

Psalms 37:2For they will soon dry up as the grass 1 and wither as the green plants. 1

Psalms 92:7When the wicked sprout like the grass, 1 and even when all the evildoers thrive, 1 still they are doomed to eternal destruction. 1

Psalms 127:1Unless Yahweh builds the house, 1 they work uselessly, those who build it. 1 Unless Yahweh guards the city, 1 the watchman stands guard uselessly. 1

Isaiah 19:16In that day, the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the upraised hand of Yahweh of hosts that he raises over them.

Jeremiah 5:10Go up onto her vineyards' terraces and destroy. But do not bring complete destruction to them. 1 Trim their vines, since those vines do not come from Yahweh. 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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