Isaiah 37:27

Therefore 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 a field before its crop has grown.

World English 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

26“‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

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

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Cross References

Numbers 14:9Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t fear them.”

Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalms 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Psalms 127:1Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Isaiah 19:16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the LORD of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

Jeremiah 5:10“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.

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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