Isaiah 40:24
In fact they are hardly even planted, hardly even sown, hardly even taken root, when he blows on them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw.
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In Context
23He brings leaders down; he makes the rulers of the world like nothing.
25“Who are you going to compare me with? Who is equal to me?” asks the Holy One.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21He says, “Watch out! I'm going to bring disaster on you and destroy your descendants. I will kill every male of Ahab's line, both slave and free, throughout the whole of Israel.
Job 4:9A breath from God destroys them; a blast of his anger wipes them out.
Job 15:30They will not escape from the darkness. Like a tree whose shoots are burned up in a forest fire, the breath of God will blow him away.
Job 21:18Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?
Proverbs 1:27When panic rains down on you like a storm, when trouble hits you like a whirlwind, when sorrow and pain come on you,
Isaiah 14:21Get ready to execute his sons because of their fathers' sins. Don't let them take over the earth; don't let them fill the whole world with their 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 →