⁶ Let them be like ^(A)the grass on the housetops,
    which ^(B)withers before it grows up,

² For they will soon ^(A)fade like ^(B)the grass
    and wither ^(C)like the green herb.

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,
    blighted^[a] before it is grown.

⁷ that though ^(A)the wicked sprout like grass
    and all ^(B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;

²⁶ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become ^(A)like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted before it is grown.