Isaiah 40:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

2 Kings 10:11

So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

Job 21:18

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Job 4:9

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

Job 8:17

His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

Psalm 58:9

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

Proverbs 1:27

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

Isaiah 11:4

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

Isaiah 17:11

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Isaiah 17:13

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 30:33

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

Isaiah 37:7

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

Isaiah 41:16

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:2

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

Jeremiah 22:30

The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah.

Jeremiah 23:19

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

Hosea 13:15

Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

Hosea 13:3

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

Haggai 1:9

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

Zechariah 7:14

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

Zechariah 9:14

And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.