New Revised Standard Version
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, blighted before it is grown.

Contemporary English Version
Their people became weak, terribly confused. They were like wild flowers or tender young grass growing on a flat roof, scorched before it matures.

New American Bible
Their people powerless, dismayed and distraught. They are plants of the field, green growth, thatch on the rooftops, Grain scorched by the east wind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

And the inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled and were confounded, they became like the grass of the field, and the green herb on the tops of houses, which withered before it came to maturity.

of small power.

Numbers 11:23 And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.

Numbers 14:9 Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not.

Psalm 48:4-7 For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together. . . .

Psalm 127:1 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Jeremiah 37:10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans was gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's army,

Jeremiah 50:36,37 A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed. . . .

Jeremiah 51:30,32 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken. . . .

they were.

Psalm 92:7 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

the grass.

Psalm 129:6-8 Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up: . . .