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Psalms 129:6
May they be like grass on the rooftops,
from The Cords of the Wicked, Psalms 129:1-8
What it says

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

What it is doing

This verse compares the enemies' future to brief and rootless vegetation.

In context

1A song of ascents. 2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, 3The plowmen plowed over my back; 4The LORD is righteous; 5May all who hate Zion 6May they be like grass on the rooftops, 7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, 8May none who pass by say to them,