NET

26 Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Darby

26 And their inhabitants were powerless^D2311, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were [as] the growing grass, and [as] the green herb, [As] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.

Darby Bible Notes

powerless - Lit. 'short of hand.'

KJV

26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power^K2146, 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 corn] blasted before it be grown up.

KJV Bible Notes

of small power: Heb. short of hand.