Isaiah 37:27
The dwellers of those cities trembled together with hand made short, and be ashamed; they be made as hay of the field, and as the grass of the pasture, and as herb of house roofs, either ridges, that dried up before that it waxed ripe.This verse in the real world
In what words
- יָרָקyârâqproperly, green; concretely, a vegetable
- קָצֵרqâtsêrshort (whether in size, number, life, strength or temper)
- שְׁדֵמָהshᵉdêmâha cultivated field
- דֶּשֶׁאdesheʼa sprout; by analogy, grass
- חָצִירchâtsîyrgrass; also a leek (collectively)
- גָּגgâga roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
- עֶשֶׂבʻesebgrass (or any tender shoot)
- חָתַתchâthathproperly, to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figurati
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Psa 129:6, Jas 1:10–11, Psa 103:15, Isa 19:16, Psa 37:2, Psa 92:7, 1Pe 1:24, Psa 90:5–6