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Isa. 37:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore their inhabitants were μof 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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short of hand.

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their inhabitants.

Isa. 19:16• ¹⁶In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over it. (Isa. 19:16)

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Num. 14:9• ⁹only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not. (Num. 14:9)

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2 Kings 19:26• ²⁶And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the growing grass, and as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up. (2 Kings 19:26)

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Psa. 127:1‑2• ¹A Song of degrees. Of Solomon. Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain:
²It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep. (Psa. 127:1‑2)

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Jer. 5:10• ¹⁰Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's. (Jer. 5:10)

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Jer. 37:10• ¹⁰For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. (Jer. 37:10)

of small power.

Heb. short of hand.

as the grass of.

Isa. 40:6‑8• ⁶A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?--All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)

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Psa. 37:2• ²for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb. (Psa. 37:2)

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Psa. 90:5‑6• ⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth. (Psa. 90:5‑6)

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Psa. 92:7• ⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever. (Psa. 92:7)

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Psa. 103:15• ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth: (Psa. 103:15)

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Psa. 129:6• ⁶Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up, (Psa. 129:6)

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James 1:10‑11• ¹⁰and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
¹¹For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings. (James 1:10‑11)

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1 Peter 1:24• ²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; (1 Peter 1:24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And their inhabitants were powerlesse, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "short of hand."