Isaiah 40:24 “No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have th…”

Isaiah 40:24

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

World English Bible

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

American Standard Version

Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Geneva Bible 1599

As though they were not plated, as though they were not sowen, as though their stocke tooke no roote in the earth: for he did euen blow vpon them, and they withered, and the whirlewinde will take them away as stubble.

Darby Translation

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Young's Literal Translation

Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“they shall not be planted”

Isaiah 17:11 2 Kings 10:11 Job 15:30–33 Job 18:16–19 Jeremiah 22:30 Nahum 1:14

Isaiah 17:11 · BSB

though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.

2 Kings 10:11 · BSB

So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

Job 15:30–33 · BSB

He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

Job 18:16–19 · BSB

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Jeremiah 22:30 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”

Nahum 1:14 · BSB

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you…

“he shall also”

Haggai 1:9 Isaiah 40:7 Isaiah 11:4 Isaiah 37:7 2 Samuel 22:16 Job 4:9

Haggai 1:9 · BSB

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Isaiah 40:7 · BSB

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Isaiah 11:4 · BSB

but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Isaiah 37:7 · BSB

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

2 Samuel 22:16 · BSB

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Job 4:9 · BSB

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

“and the”

Isaiah 41:16 Isaiah 17:13 Jeremiah 23:19 Job 21:18 Psalm 58:9 Proverbs 1:27

Isaiah 41:16 · BSB

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 17:13 · BSB

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Jeremiah 23:19 · BSB

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Job 21:18 · BSB

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Psalm 58:9 · BSB

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Proverbs 1:27 · BSB

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

25“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

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