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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
And þei þat sitten meke of hond in tho, trembliden togidere, and ben schent; þei ben maad as þe hei of þe feeld, and as grene eerbe of roouys, which is dried, bifor þat it cam to ripenesse.