²⁶ Their people, drained of power,^(A)
    are dismayed^(B) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,^(C)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched^(D) before it grows up.

² They spring up like flowers^(A) and wither away;^(B)
    like fleeting shadows,^(C) they do not endure.^(D)

⁴ My heart is blighted and withered like grass;^(A)
    I forget to eat my food.^(B)

⁷ The grass withers^(A) and the flowers fall,
    because the breath^(B) of the Lord blows^(C) on them.
    Surely the people are grass.