Parallel Verses New International Version 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, scorched before it grows up. King James Bible 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. Darby Bible Translation And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were [as] the growing grass, and [as] the green herb, [As] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up. World English Bible Therefore their inhabitants were of small 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 grain blasted before it has grown up. Young's Literal Translation 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! 2 Kings 19:26 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHast thou not heard - Here Jehovah speaks, and shows this boasting king that what he had done was done by the Divine appointment, and that of his own counsel and might he could have done nothing. It was because God had appointed them to this civil destruction that he had overcome them; and it was not through his might; for God had made their inhabitants of small power, so that he only got the victory over men whom God had confounded, dismayed, and enervated, 2 Kings 19:26. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge of small power. Heb. short of hand. Psalm 48:4-7 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together... they were. Psalm 102:11 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass. the grass. Psalm 129:6-8 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which wither before it grows up... Library 'He Uttered his Voice, the Earth Melted''Then Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21. This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The Sinner Arraigned and Convicted. The First Commandment Agency of Evil Spirits Cross References Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Genesis 41:6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind. Psalm 129:6 May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow; Isaiah 13:8 Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame. Jump to Previous Blasted Confounded Corn Dismayed Dried Feeble-Handed Field Grain Grass Green Growing Grown Grows Herb House Housetops House-Tops Inhabitants Plant Plants Power Powerless Roof Scorched Shame Shoots Shorn Short Small Sprouting Strength Tender Tops Townsmen VegetationJump to Next Blasted Confounded Corn Dismayed Dried Feeble-Handed Field Grain Grass Green Growing Grown Grows Herb House Housetops House-Tops Inhabitants Plant Plants Power Powerless Roof Scorched Shame Shoots Shorn Short Small Sprouting Strength Tender Tops Townsmen VegetationLinks 2 Kings 19:26 NIV2 Kings 19:26 NLT 2 Kings 19:26 ESV 2 Kings 19:26 NASB 2 Kings 19:26 KJV 2 Kings 19:26 Bible Apps 2 Kings 19:26 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 19:26 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 19:26 French Bible 2 Kings 19:26 German Bible 2 Kings 19:26 Commentaries THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®. Bible Hub |
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