Isaiah 37:27

And their inhabitants, being powerless, were overthrown and put to shame—They became—Grass of the field and Young herbage, Grass on housetops, and Seed parched before it came up.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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—That, long ago, that, is what I appointed, And from days of old, devised? Now, have I brought it to pass, That thou mightest Serve to lay waste, in desolate ruins, fortified cities;

28Howbeit, thine abode and thy coming out and thy going in, I know,—and thy raging against me.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:9Only against Yahweh, do not rebel. Do not, ye, fear the people of the land, For our food, they are,—Their shade hath departed, from over them. And Yahweh is with us, Do not fear them!

Psalms 37:2For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.

Psalms 92:7When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Psalms 127:1If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake:

Isaiah 19:16In that day, shall Egypt be like unto women,—And shall start and tremble because of the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he is about to brandish over it.

Jeremiah 5:10Scale ye her walls and destroy, But a full end, do not make,—Remove her tendrils, For not to Yahweh, do, they, belong!

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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