⁶ Let them be as the ^(A)grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up,

² For they shall soon be cut down ^(A)like the grass,
And wither as the green herb.

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.

⁷ When ^(A)the wicked ^[a]spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be destroyed forever.

²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As ^(A)the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.