Isaiah 40:24
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And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

they shall not be planted

Isaiah 14:21,22 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. . . .

Isaiah 17:11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much.

1 Kings 21:21,22 Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel. . . .

2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and his friends, and his priests, till there were no remains left of him.

Job 15:30-33 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth. . . .

Job 18:16-19 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. . . .

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.

Nahum 1:14 And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

he shall also

Isaiah 40:7 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

Isaiah 11:4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

Isaiah 30:33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.

Isaiah 37:7 Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.

2 Samuel 22:16 And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.

Job 4:9 Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

Haggai 1:9 You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house.

and the

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.

Job 21:18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Proverbs 1:27 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Jeremiah 23:19 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.

Hosea 13:3,15 Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. . . .

Zechariah 7:14 And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a wilderness.

Zechariah 9:14 And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the south.

Context
Here is Your God!
23He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. 24And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.25And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One?…
Cross References
Psalm 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

Isaiah 17:13
Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 40:7
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

Isaiah 41:2
Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.

Isaiah 41:16
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.

Lexicon
No sooner
אַ֣ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

are they planted,
נִטָּ֗עוּ (niṭ·ṭā·‘ū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5193: To strike in, fix, to plant

no sooner
אַ֚ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

are they sown,
זֹרָ֔עוּ (zō·rā·‘ū)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify

no sooner
אַ֛ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

have their stems
גִּזְעָ֑ם (giz·‘ām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1503: The trunk, stump of a, tree

taken root
שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ (šō·rêš)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8327: To root, strike into the soil, to pluck from it

in the ground,
בָּאָ֖רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

than
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

He blows
נָשַׁ֤ף (nā·šap̄)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5398: To breeze, blow up fresh

on them
בָּהֶם֙ (bā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

and they wither,
וַיִּבָ֔שׁוּ (way·yi·ḇā·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3001: To be ashamed, confused, disappointed, to dry up, wither

and a whirlwind
וּסְעָרָ֖ה (ū·sə·‘ā·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5591: A hurricane

sweeps them away
תִּשָּׂאֵֽם׃ (tiś·śā·’êm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

like stubble.
כַּקַּ֥שׁ (kaq·qaš)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7179: Stubble, chaff


Additional Translations
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.Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

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.

For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

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.

Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, 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.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.
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