Let them be as the grass upon the housetops—The housetops, or roofs of houses, covered with sand or earth, in which seeds of grass …

Which withereth afore it groweth up. —This clause, with its Aramaic colouring, probably contains a textual error. The con…

So the adversaries of the Church of God may grow as fast as grass on the roof of a house, but they will perish just as fast, and there will be noth…

Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops The tops of the houses in Judea were flat, and so grass grew upon them, bei…

While God's people will flourish like the loaded palm tree or the green and fruitful olive, their enemies will wither like the grass upon the house…