“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.”
Isaiah prophesies that the inhabitants of the cities have become powerless and dismayed, that they have become like grass of the field and green herb, consumed by the wind before it is grown up. The prophecy suggests the weakness and vulnerability of the nations that the Assyrian king has conquered. The metaphor emphasizes the transience and fragility of human power.
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