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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.

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ASV

Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

KJV

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַ֣ף'afevenH637 →
בַּל־bal-notH1077 →
נִטָּ֗עוּni.Ta.'uthey have been plantedH5193 →
אַ֚ף'afevenH637 →
בַּל־bal-notH1077 →
זֹרָ֔עוּzo.Ra.'uthey have been sownH2232 →
אַ֛ף'afevenH637 →
בַּל־bal-notH1077 →
שֹׁרֵ֥שׁsho.Reshit has taken rootH8327 →
בָּאָ֖רֶץba.'A.retzin the groundH776 →
גִּזְעָ֑םgiz.'Amrootstock theirH1503 →
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
נָשַׁ֤ףna.Shafhe blowsH5398 →
בָּהֶם֙ba.Hemon them
וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּvai.yi.Va.shuand they have dried upH3001 →
וּסְעָרָ֖הu.se.'a.Rahand a tempestH5591 →
כַּקַּ֥שׁka.Kashlike <the> chaffH7179 →
תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ סti.sa.'Emit carries off themH5375 →

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Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.Isaiah 14:21–22Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.Job 15:30–33He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.Job 18:16–19The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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