²⁶ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become ^(A)like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted before it is grown.

²⁷ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted^[a] before it is grown.