Psalms 129:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Psalms 129:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Matthew 13:6
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
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.
Psalms 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Commentary

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

(vv. 5-8)

The psalmist, having triumphed in the defeat of the many designs that had been laid as deep as hell to ruin the church, here concludes his psalm as Deborah did her song, So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord! Jdg. 5:31. I. There are many that hate Zion, that hate Zion’s God, his worship, and his worshippers, that have an antipathy to religion and religious people, that seek the ruin of both, and d…

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

(vv. 6)

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.