Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
World English Bible
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 disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
7with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
Psalms 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Jeremiah 17:5The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs 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 →