Isaiah 37:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Therefore 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.

Isaiah 37:27 —

Old words in this verse

corn: — grain, such as wheat or barley.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Numbers 14:9
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Jeremiah 37:10
For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-38)

We may here observe, 1. That those who receive messages of terror from men with patience, and send messages of faith to God by prayer, may expect messages of grace and peace from God for their comfort, even when they are most cast down. Isaiah sent a long answer to Hezekiah’s prayer in God’s name, sent it in writing (for it was too long to be sent by word of mouth), and sent it by way of return to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. Therefore--not because of thy power, but because I made them unable to withstand thee. grass--which easily withers (Is 40:6; Psa 37:2). on ... housetops--which having little earth to nourish it fades soonest (Psa 129:6-8). corn blasted before it be grown up--Smith translates, “The cornfield (frail and tender), before the corn is grown.”