Isaiah 37:27 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Isaiah 37:27 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Isaiah 37:27 in 6 Bible Translations
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Isaiah 37:27 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.”
Isaiah 37:27 — World English Bible
Isaiah 37:27 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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 a field of grain before it is grown up. ”
Isaiah 37:27 — American Standard Version
Isaiah 37:27 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.”
Isaiah 37:27 — Young's Literal Translation
Isaiah 37:27 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field and the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up. ”
Isaiah 37:27 — Darby Translation
Isaiah 37:27 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Whose inhabitants haue small power, and are afrayd and confounded: they are like the grasse of the field and greene herbe, or grasse on the house tops, or corne blassed afore it be growen.”
Isaiah 37:27 — Geneva Bible
Isaiah 37:27 in Context — Isaiah 37
25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
What Does Isaiah 37:27 Mean?
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