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 house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
That's why the people living in those cities had no strength to resist. They were terrified and confused, like grass in a field or tender green plants. They were like grass growing on rooftops or grain that gets destroyed before it can fully grow.
God is explaining that the people in the conquered cities were powerless and easily defeated because they were weak and temporary, like plants that wither quickly.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of God's response to King Hezekiah through the prophet Isaiah during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem around 701 BC. God is explaining how the Assyrian king Sennacherib was able to conquer so many cities - not because of his own power, but because God had planned it and made those cities weak like fragile plants.
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