Isaiah 40:24
They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
23He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
25Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;
Job 4:9By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.
Job 15:30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
Job 21:18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
Proverbs 1:27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Isaiah 14:21Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
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 →