Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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In Context
23who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
25To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel.
Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.
Job 21:18that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
Proverbs 1:27when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27
Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →