Isaiah 37:27

²⁷ Therefore their inhabitants were of small [1] 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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Other Translations of Isaiah 37:27

New International Version

²⁷ Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorchedSome manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "roof" / "and terraced fields" before it grows up.

English Standard Version

²⁷ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blightedSome Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts like a field before it is grown.

The Message

²⁷ and leaving their citizens helpless, bewildered, and confused, drooping like unwatered plants, stunted like withered seedlings.

New King James Version

²⁷ Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.

New Living Translation

²⁷ That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green shoots. They are like grass sprouting on a housetop, scorched before it can grow lush and tall.