Scripture · Old Testament
Psalms 129:6
Psalms 129:6 is verse 6 of Psalms chapter 129, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
King James Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
World English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Read in context
Psalms 129:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
6 May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
7 unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
8 May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
Read all of Psalms 129Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Psalms 129:6
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 37:2For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Matthew 13:6But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.