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.

Cross References (25)

  • Isaiah 41:16 (5)

    You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you w

  • Isaiah 17:13 (3)

    The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaf

  • Haggai 1:9 (3)

    You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of

  • Jeremiah 23:19 (3)

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

  • Jeremiah 22:30 (2)

    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his desce

  • Hosea 13:15 (2)

    Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fo

  • Proverbs 1:27 (2)

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

  • Isaiah 11:4 (2)

    but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike

  • Isaiah 37:7 (2)

    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 fa

  • Isaiah 40:7 (2)

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

  • Zechariah 7:14 (2)

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behi

  • Isaiah 17:11 (2)

    though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout—yet the harvest will vanis

  • Psalms 58:9 (2)

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

  • Job 4:9 (2)

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

  • 2 Kings 10:11 (2)

    So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and

  • Job 15:30–33 (2)

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

  • Job 18:16–19 (2)

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

  • 1 Kings 21:21–22 (2)

    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every m

  • Job 21:18 (2)

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

  • Hosea 13:3 (2)

    Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor,

  • Isaiah 14:21–22 (2)

    Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land

  • Zechariah 9:14 (2)

    Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn

  • Nahum 1:14 (2)

    The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut

  • 2 Samuel 22:16 (2)

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

  • Isaiah 30:33 (1)

    For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty