Isaiah 37:27
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.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 40:6-8 explicitly uses the same 'grass withers, flower fades' metaphor for human frailty, echoing and expanding the imagery in Isaiah 37:27.
Isaiah 10:6 describes Assyria as God's instrument to trample nations — this verse shows the conquered cities' frailty.
Isaiah 13:7 uses similar language of limp hands and melting hearts — parallel description of weakness in judgment.
Isaiah 19:16 uses the same image of weakness—Egyptians become like women trembling—parallel to the shorn strength of Assyria's victims here.
2 Kings 19:26 records the identical description of the inhabitants' weakness—this is the parallel account of the same historical event.
Psalm 37:2 says the wicked 'fade like grass and wither like green herb'—same wording and theme as the grass metaphor here.
Psalm 90:5 compares human life to grass that is renewed in morning and fades—directly parallels the transient grass imagery.
Psalm 90:6 continues the grass metaphor: 'in the evening it fades and withers'—same imagery of quick decay.
Psalm 103:15 says 'man's days are like grass'—directly parallels the fragility of human life imagery.
Psalm 129:6 says 'like grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up'—almost identical phrase to Isaiah 37:27.
James 1:10 uses the 'flower of the grass' metaphor from Isaiah to describe the rich passing away—NT application of OT imagery.
James 1:11 uses the same grass-withering metaphor to illustrate human transience, echoing Isaiah 37:27's description of frailty.
2 Kings 19:25 is the parallel account where God declares He planned Assyria's conquest — this verse shows the resulting weakness.
In 1 Peter 1:24, the same grass metaphor illustrates human frailty — here the defeated cities' weakness echoes the universal transience of life.
Psalm 92:7 notes wicked sprout like grass but are destroyed—similar grass imagery but applied to the wicked's temporary flourishing, not all humans.