Isaiah 40:24

Conservative English Version

They are like flowers freshly sprung up and starting to grow. But when God blows on them, they wilt and are carried off like straw in a storm.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:16

You roared at the sea, and its deepest channels could be seen. You snorted, and the earth shook to its foundations.

2 Kings 10:11

Then Jehu killed the rest of Ahab's relatives living in Jezreel, as well as his highest officials, his priests, and his closest friends. No one in Ahab's family was left alive in Jezreel.

Job 21:18

How often does he strike them like a windstorm that scatters straw?

Job 4:9

and then they are swept away by the angry breath of God.

Job 8:17

They wrap their roots tightly around rocks.

Psalm 58:9

Wipe them out quicker than a pot can be heated by setting thorns on fire.

Psalm 83:13

Our God, scatter them around like dust in a whirlwind.

Proverbs 1:27

or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun.

Isaiah 11:4

The poor and the needy will be treated with fairness and with justice. His word will be law everywhere in the land, and criminals will be put to death.

Isaiah 17:11

The plants may sprout and blossom that very same morning, but it will do you no good, because you will suffer endless agony.

Isaiah 17:13

But even if they roar like a fearsome flood, God will give the command to turn them back. They will be like dust, or like a tumbleweed blowing across the hills in a windstorm.

Isaiah 30:33

Long ago the LORD got a place ready for burning the body of the dead king. The place for the fire is deep and wide, the wood is piled high, and the LORD will start the fire by breathing out flaming sulfur.

Isaiah 37:7

I will upset him with rumors about what's happening in his own country. He will go back, and there I will make him die a violent death.

Isaiah 40:7

At the LORD's command, flowers and grass disappear, and so do we.

Isaiah 41:16

A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your LORD, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 41:2

Who appointed this ruler from the east? Who puts nations and kings in his power? His sword and his arrows turn them to dust blown by the wind.

Jeremiah 22:30

Erase the names of Jehoiachin's children from the royal records. He is a complete failure, and so none of them will ever be king. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 23:19

They are evil! So in my anger I will strike them like a violent storm.

Hosea 13:15

No matter how much you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the LORD, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.

Hosea 13:3

And so, all of you will vanish like the mist or the dew of early morning, or husks of grain in the wind or smoke from a chimney.

Nahum 1:14

Assyria, this is what else the LORD says to you: "Your name will be forgotten. I will destroy every idol in your temple, and I will send you to the grave, because you are worthless."

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but received only a little. And when you brought it home, I made that little disappear. Why have I done this? It's because you hurry off to build your own houses, while my temple is still in ruins.

Zechariah 7:14

That's why I came with a whirlwind and scattered them among foreign nations, leaving their lovely country empty of people and in ruins.

Zechariah 9:14

Like a cloud, the LORD God will appear over his people, and his arrows will flash like lightning. God will sound his trumpet and attack in a whirlwind from the south.