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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
יהיו כחציר גגות-- שקדמת שלף יבש
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
yhyv kKHTSyr ggvt-- SHqdmt SHlp ybSH

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
a vigilia matutina usque ad vigiliam matutinam expectet Israhel Dominum

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which wither before it grows up:
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Authorized (King James) Version   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
New King James Version   
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
21st Century King James Version   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up,

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
They shall be like the grass of the rooftop which the wind pulls out and dries up when it blows upon it.
Darby Bible Translation   
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Let them be as grass on the tops of houses: which withered before it be plucked up:
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
God's Word   
Make them be like grass on a roof, like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up
International Standard Version   
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root—
NET Bible   
May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,
New American Standard Bible   
Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
New International Version   
May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;
New Living Translation   
May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown,
Webster's Bible Translation   
Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:
The World English Bible   
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
EasyEnglish Bible   
May they be useless, like grass that grows on a roof. It dies before it can grow tall!
Young‘s Literal Translation   
They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,
New Life Version   
Let them be like grass on the roof, which dries up before it grows.
The Voice Bible   
Let them grow like grass upon rooftops that withers and dies in the sun long before it has time to grow,
Living Bible   
May they be as grass in shallow soil, turning sere and yellow when half grown, ignored by the reaper, despised by the binder.
New Catholic Bible   
May they be like grass on the rooftops that withers before it can be plucked,
Legacy Standard Bible   
Let them be like grass upon the rooftops, Which dries up before it grows up;
Jubilee Bible 2000   
They shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Christian Standard Bible   
Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
New Century Version   
Let them be like the grass on the roof that dries up before it has grown.
The Message   
Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation; Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest, Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop, Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, “Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in God’s name!”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Let them be like grass on the roof, which withers even before it is pulled up.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
Good News Translation®   
May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;
Wycliffe Bible   
Be they made as the hay of housetops; that dried up, before that it be drawn up. (Be they made like the grass on the rooftops; it dried up, before that it could be pulled up.)
Contemporary English Version   
May they be like grass on the flat roof of a house, grass that dries up as soon as it sprouts.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
Common English Bible © 2011   
Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up,
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
May they be like grass on the rooftops withered in early growth,
New American Standard Bible   
May they be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
The Expanded Bible   
Let them be like the grass on the roof that dries up before it has grown.
Tree of Life Version   
Let them be like grass on the roofs, which withers before it springs up—
Revised Standard Version   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
New International Reader's Version   
May they be like grass that grows on the roof of a house. It dries up before it can grow.
BRG Bible   
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Complete Jewish Bible   
Let them be like grass on the roof, which dries out before it grows up
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops, which withereth before it groweth up;
Names of God Bible   
Make them be like grass on a roof, like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
Modern English Version   
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it even grows,
Easy-to-Read Version   
They will be like grass on a flat roof that dies before it has time to grow.
International Children’s Bible   
Let them be like the grass on the roof. It dries up before it has grown.
Lexham English Bible   
Let them be like grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up,
New International Version - UK   
May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;