Isaiah 40:24

Tree of Life Version

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely their stem takes root in the earth, when He blows on them and they wither, and a storm carries them off as stubble.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the ravines of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were exposed by the rebuke of Adonai, at a blast of the breath of His nostrils.

2 Kings 10:11

So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel—all his nobles, his acquaintances, his priests—until he left him not a survivor.

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of His anger they vanish.

Job 8:17

he entwines his roots around a heap of stones, and looks for a place between the rocks.

Psalm 58:9

Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.

Psalm 83:13

who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”

Proverbs 1:27

when your terror comes like a storm and your calamity sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when trouble and distress overwhelm you!

Isaiah 11:4

But with righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the poor of the land. He will strike the land with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

Isaiah 17:11

In the day that you plant, you fence it in, and in the morning you made your seed to sprout— but the harvest will be a heap in a day of grief and incurable pain.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has long been ready, prepared for the king, its fire pit made deep and wide, a pyre of fire with plenty of wood. The breath of Adonai, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it aflame.

Isaiah 37:7

Behold, I am putting a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor, and will return to his own country; then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’”

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades. For the breath of Adonai blows on it. Surely the people are grass.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away, a storm-wind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in Adonai. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:2

Who has stirred up one from the east? He calls justice to His feet. He gives nations over to him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as driven stubble with his bow.

Jeremiah 22:30

Thus says Adonai: “Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. For no man of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”

Jeremiah 23:19

Look, a storm of Adonai goes out in fury, yes, a whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

Hosea 13:15

Because he is the son of kinsmen, he should have been fruitful. An east wind will come— the wind from Adonai, coming up from the wilderness. His spring will become dry, and his fountain will dry up. He will plunder the treasury of every precious vessel.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like dew passing away early, like chaff blown from the threshing-floor, or like smoke from a chimney.

Nahum 1:14

Adonai has issued a command against you: no more will your name be spread. From the house of your gods I will cut off the idol and metal image. I will prepare your grave— for you have become worthless.

Haggai 1:9

“You have looked for much, but indeed, there is little. What you have brought home, I have blown away. Why is this?”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“because My House lies in ruins, while you are running, each to his own house.

Zechariah 7:14

‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they have not known. Thus the land was left so desolate behind them that no one passed through or returned, for they made the pleasant land desolate.’”

Zechariah 9:14

Then Adonai will be seen over them as His arrow flashes like lightning. Adonai Elohim will blow the shofar and march in whirlwinds of the south.