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.
That's why the people living in those cities had no strength left to fight. They were terrified and completely confused. They were like grass in a field, like tender green plants, like grass growing on rooftops, and like grain that gets destroyed by wind before it can fully grow.
God is explaining that the people in the cities conquered by Assyria were left powerless and vulnerable, like fragile plants that are easily destroyed.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of God's message to King Hezekiah through the prophet Isaiah during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem around 701 BC. The Assyrian king Sennacherib had been boasting about conquering many nations and cities. Here, God explains that those previous conquests were only successful because He had predetermined them and left those peoples without strength to resist.
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