Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely hath their stock, begun to take root in the earth, When he hath just blown upon them and they have withered, And, a whirlwind, as though they had been chaff, carrieth them away.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
23Who delivereth dignitaries to nothingness,—Judges of earth, like a desolation, hath he made:
25Unto whom then, can ye liken me, or can I be equal? Saith the Holy One.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:21Behold me! [saith he] bringing in upon thee, calamity, and I will consume after thee,—and cut off of Ahab, even the meanest, whether shut up or left at large in Israel;
Job 4:9By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed:
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!
Job 21:18They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
Proverbs 1:27When cometh as a crashing your dread, and, your calamity, as a storm-wind, overtaketh, when there come upon you, distress and anguish.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare—for his sons—shambles. For the iniquity of their fathers,—They shall not rise nor possess the earth, 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 →