Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants … confounded Better, And their inhabitants (being) of small power (lit. "short of hand") were terrified and ashamed.

grass on the housetops See Psalms 129:6-8.

corn blasted before it be grown up The Hebr. text reads "a corn-field before it is in stalk" (see R.V.). The A.V. adopts the reading of 2 Kings 19:26, which is perhaps to be preferred "a blasting before it is in stalk." But neither rendering accounts quite satisfactorily for the words "before it is in stalk." In all probability they are, as Wellhausen has suggested, a corruption of the opening words of the next verse, which is obviously unsymmetrical as it stands.