“Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 129 contains 8 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.