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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;

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

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

King James Bible
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cross References

Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you on the housetops.

2 Kings 19:26
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 house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

129:5-8 While God's people shall flourish as the loaded palm-tree, or the green and fruitful olive, their enemies shall wither as the grass upon the house-tops, which in eastern countries are flat, and what grows there never ripens; so it is with the designs of God's enemies. No wise man will pray the Lord to bless these mowers or reapers. And when we remember how Jesus arose and reigns; how his people have been supported, like the burning but unconsumed bush, we shall not fear.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5, 6. The ill-rooted roof grass, which withers before it grows up and procures for those gathering it no harvest blessing (Ru 2:4), sets forth the utter uselessness and the rejection of the wicked.