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 a field 'of grain' before it is grown up.
Þe dwelleris of tho citees trembliden togidere with hond maad schort, and ben aschamed; þei ben maad as hei of þe feeld, and þe gras of lesewe, and as erbe of roouys, þat driede vp bifore þat it wexide ripe.