Psalms 129:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 129:6

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

KJV

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ASV

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

WEB

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

YLT

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

DBT

Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

10 verses on the floor

1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Isaiah 37:27
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.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah 17:5–6
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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It is true, they brought their troubles upon themselves by their sins; it was for them that God punished them; but it was for the peculiarity of their covenant, and the singularities of their religion, that their neighbours hated and persecuted them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 129:6PSA 92:7 PSA 37:35-36
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 129:6PSA 37:2 PSA 90:5-6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 129:6PSA 37:2 JAS 1:10-11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 129:6PSA 92:7 PSA 37:38
PSA 129:6PSA 92:7 PSA 73:18-20
PSA 129:6PSA 92:7 1PE 1:24
PSA 129:6PSA 92:7 PSA 37:1-2
PSA 129:6PSA 37:2 PSA 92:7

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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