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Psalms 129:6
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Psalms 129:6
6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
6Let them bee as the grasse vpon the house tops: which withereth afore it groweth vp:
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Psalms 129:6
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Withers; dries up, fades, loses strength, or wastes away.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Beforehand; previously.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
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Open the full verse study26Therefore 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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Open the full verse study27Therefore 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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Open the full verse study5¶ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
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Open the full verse study6And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
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Open the full verse study7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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