Isaiah 40:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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  • Isa 41:16 : 16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
  • Isa 37:7 : 7 Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
  • Jer 22:30 : 30 The LORD says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”
  • Jer 23:19 : 19 But just watch! The wrath of the LORD will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.
  • Hos 13:15 : 15 The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.
  • Nah 1:14 : 14 Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”
  • Hag 1:9 : 9 ‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little. And when you would bring it home, I would blow it right away. Why?’ asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
  • Zech 7:14 : 14 ‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”
  • Zech 9:14 : 14 Then the LORD will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Sovereign LORD will blow the trumpet and will proceed in the southern storm winds.
  • 2 Sam 22:16 : 16 The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.
  • 1 Kgs 21:21-22 : 21 The LORD says,‘Look, I am ready to bring disaster on you. I will destroy you and cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 22 I will make your dynasty like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah because you angered me and made Israel sin.’
  • 2 Kgs 10:11 : 11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.
  • Job 4:9 : 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
  • Job 15:30-33 : 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth. 31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. 32 Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. 33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
  • Ps 58:9 : 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
  • Prov 1:27 : 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
  • Isa 11:4 : 4 He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.
  • Isa 14:21-22 : 21 Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.” 22 “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” says the LORD.
  • Isa 17:11 : 11 The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.
  • Isa 30:33 : 33 For the burial place is already prepared; it has been made deep and wide for the king. The firewood is piled high on it. The LORD’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone, will ignite it.

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