Isaiah 40:24
And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.
Job 4:9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Proverbs 1:27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
Isaiah 14:21Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor 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 →