Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms 129:6 in other translations
| BSB | May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow, |
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| WEB | Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, |
| ASV | Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up; |
| YLT | They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth, |
| DARBY | Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up, |
| BBE | Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. |
| Webster | Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up: |
What does Psalms 129:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 129:5-6
5-6. The ill-rooted roof grass, which withers before it grows up and procures for those gathering it no harvest blessing (Ru 2:4), sets forth the utter uselessness and the rejection of the wicked.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 129:5-8
While God's people shall flourish as the loaded palm-tree, or the green and fruitful olive, their enemies shall wither as the grass upon the house-tops, which in eastern countries are flat, and what grows there never ripens; so it is with the designs of God's enemies. No wise man will pray the Lord to bless these mowers or reapers. And when we remember how Jesus arose and reigns; how his people have been supported…
Psalms 129:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 129:6
- Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
- Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
- 2 Kings 19:26
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.
- Isaiah 37:27
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.
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Context
- Psalms 129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
- Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
- Psalms 129:7
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms 129:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Serán como la hierba de los tejados, que se seca antes que crezca: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qu’ils soient comme l’herbe des toits, qui sèche avant qu’on l’arrache, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mögen sie sein wie das Gras der Dächer, welches verdorrt, ehe man es ausrauft, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | A custodia matutina usque ad noctem, speret Israël in Domino. |