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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.

KJV

Habitatores earum breviata manu contremuerunt, et confusi sunt. Facti sunt sicut fœnum agri, et gramen pascuæ, et herba tectorum, quæ exaruit antequam maturesceret.

Vulgate

ἀνῆκα τὰς χεῖρας, καὶ ἐξηράνθησαν, καὶ ἐγένοντο ὡς χόρτος ξηρὸς ἐπὶ δωμάτων καὶ ὡς ἄγρωστις.

LXX

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 a field of grain before it is grown up.

ASV

וְ/יֹֽשְׁבֵי/הֶן֙ קִצְרֵי יָ֔ד חַ֖תּוּ וָ/בֹ֑שׁוּ הָי֞וּ עֵ֤שֶׂב שָׂדֶה֙ וִ֣/ירַק דֶּ֔שֶׁא חֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֔וֹת וּ/שְׁדֵמָ֖ה לִ/פְנֵ֥י קָמָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גָּֽג
gg
noun · 31×
דֶּ֔שֶׁא
dsh'
verb · 15×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
חֲצִ֣יר
chtsyr
noun · 21×
חַ֖תּוּ
chtv
verb · 51×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ
ybshv
verb · 112×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
ירַק
yrq
noun · 5×
עֵ֣שֶׂב
'shb
noun · 33×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
קִצְרֵי
qtsry
adjective · 5×
קָמָֽה
qmh
noun · 8×
שַׁדְמ֣וֹת
shdmvt
noun · 6×
שָּׂדֶ֔ה
shdh
noun · 334×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 40:6 — The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
  • Ps 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:
  • Ps 129:6 — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: