"Therefore their inhabitants {were} of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were {as} the grass of the fi…" — Isaiah 37:27

Isaiah 37:27 · KJV

“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. {of small...: Heb. short of hand}”

— Isaiah 37:27

Verse 26

Hast thou not heard long ago, {how} I have done it; {and} of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities {into} ruinous heaps. {Hast...: or, Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?}

Verse 28

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. {abode: or, sitting}

Isaiah 37 — Context

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. {besieged: or, fenced and closed}

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. {of small...: Heb. short of hand}

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. {abode: or, sitting}

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Cross References

Psalms 129:6

Let them be as the grass {upon} the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Psalms 103:15

{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isaiah 19:16

In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

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:

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

Psalms 90:5-6

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

Numbers 14:9

Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they {are} bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD {is} with us: fear them not. {defence: Heb. shadow}