Isaiah 40:24
Yes, they were not yet planted; yea, they were not yet sown; yea, their stem had not yet taken root in the earth: when he but breathed upon them, and they withered, and the storm-wind carrieth them away as stubble.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23That bringeth princes to naught; rendering the judges of the earth as vanity.
25To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to? saith the Holy One.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and I will sweep out after thee, and will cut off from Achab every male, and the guarded and fortified in Israel,
Job 4:9Before the breathing of God they perish, and before the breath of his nostrils they come to their end.
Job 15:30He will never depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his shoots, and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Job 21:18Are they as straw before the wind, and as chaff which the stealeth away?
Proverbs 1:27When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare for his children the slaughter, for the iniquity of their fathers: that they may not rise, and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with enemies [of mankind].
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 →