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

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

²⁷ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
    that is scorched before the east wind.^[a](A)

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

²⁶ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
    that is scorched before the east wind.^[a](A)