Psalm 129:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;

New Living Translation
May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,

English Standard Version
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

Berean Study Bible
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

New American Standard Bible
May they be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

NASB 1995
Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

NASB 1977
Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

Amplified Bible
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,

Christian Standard Bible
Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

Contemporary English Version
May they be like grass on the flat roof of a house, grass that dries up as soon as it sprouts.

Good News Translation
May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Make them be like grass on a roof, like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.

International Standard Version
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root—

NET Bible
May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

New King James Version
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,

King James 2000 Bible
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

New Heart English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

World English Bible
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

American King James Version
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which wither before it grows up:

American Standard Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

A Faithful Version
Let them be like the grass upon the housetops which withers away before it grows up,

Darby Bible Translation
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,

English Revised Version
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Webster's Bible Translation
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They shall be as the grasse growing vpon the house toppes: whiche withereth afore that it be shot foorth to his growth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let the be eue as the haye vpon the house toppes, which wythereth afore it be pluckte vp.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They are as grass of the roofs, "" That withers before it was drawn out,

Young's Literal Translation
They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

Smith's Literal Translation
They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be as grass on the tops of houses: which withered before it be plucked up:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can be pulled up:

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They shall be like the grass of the rooftop which the wind pulls out and dries up when it blows upon it.

Lamsa Bible
Let them be as the grass upon the house tops, which pulls out and withers when the wind strikes it,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth afore it springeth up;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up.
















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