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Isaiah 40

Isa. 40:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yea, they shall not be planted
nata` (Hebrew #5193)
properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: fastened, plant(- er).
Pronounce: naw-tah'
Origin: a primitive root
; yea, they shall not be sown
zara` (Hebrew #2232)
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Pronounce: zaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
: yea, their stock
geza' (Hebrew #1503)
the trunk or stump of a tree (as felled or as planted)
KJV usage: stem, stock.
Pronounce: geh'-zah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees)
shall not take root
sharash (Hebrew #8327)
to root, i.e. strike into the soil, or (by implication) to pluck from it
KJV usage: (take, cause to take) root (out).
Pronounce: shaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
: and he shall also blow
nashaph (Hebrew #5398)
to breeze, i.e. blow up fresh (as the wind)
KJV usage: blow.
Pronounce: naw-shaf'
Origin: a primitive root
upon them, and they shall wither
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the whirlwind
ca`ar (Hebrew #5591)
from 5590; a hurricane
KJV usage: storm(-y), tempest, whirlwind.
Pronounce: sah'-ar
Origin: or (feminine) ctarah {seh-aw-raw'}
shall take
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
them away as stubble
qash (Hebrew #7179)
straw (as dry)
KJV usage: stubble.
Pronounce: kash
Origin: from 7197
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Cross References

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they shall not be planted.
Isa. 14:21‑22• 21Prepare ye slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
 22And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 14:21‑22)
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Isa. 17:11• 11in the day of thy planting wilt thou hedge [them] round, and in the morning wilt thou make thy seed to flourish: [but] the harvest [will be] a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. (Isa. 17:11)
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1 Kings 21:21‑22• 21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every man child, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
 22and will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 21:21‑22)
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2 Kings 10:11• 11So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolk, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. (2 Kings 10:11)
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Job 15:30‑33• 30He escapeth not from darkness:{HR}A flame withereth his shoots,{HR}And he passeth away by the breath of his mouth.
 31Let him not trust in vanity; he is deceived;{HR}For vanity shall be his recompense;
 32Before his day it is fulfilled,{HR}And his branch is not green;
 33He shaketh off like a vine his grapes,{HR}And casteth down like an olive his blossoms. (Job 15:30‑33)
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Job 18:16‑19• 16Beneath, his roots shall be dried up,{HR}And above, his branch shall be cut off.
 17His memorial shall perish from the earth,{HR}And he shall have no name on the plain.
 18They shall drive him from light into darkness,{HR}And shall chase him from the world.
 19No shoot nor sprout shall he have among his people,{HR}And no escaped one in his dwellings. (Job 18:16‑19)
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Jer. 22:30• 30Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. (Jer. 22:30)
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Nah. 1:14• 14And Jehovah hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown. Out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make [it] thy grave; for thou art vile. (Nah. 1:14)
he shall also.
Isa. 40:7• 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the Spirit of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. (Isa. 40:7)
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Isa. 11:4• 4but with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked [one]. (Isa. 11:4)
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Isa. 30:33• 33For Topheth [is] prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:33)
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Isa. 37:7• 7Behold, I will put a spirit into him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. (Isa. 37:7)
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2 Sam. 22:16• 16And the beds of the sea were seen,{HR}The foundations of the world were uncovered{HR}At the rebuke of Jehovah,{HR}At the blast of the breath of his nostrils. (2 Sam. 22:16)
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Job 4:9• 9By the breath of God they perish,{HR}And by the blast of his nostrils they are consumed. (Job 4:9)
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Hag. 1:9• 9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? said Jehovah of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (Hag. 1:9)
and the.
Isa. 17:13• 13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling [dust] before the storm. (Isa. 17:13)
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Isa. 41:16• 16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:16)
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Job 21:18• 18They are as straw before wind,{HR}And as chaff a whirlwind stealeth. (Job 21:18)
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Psa. 58:9• 9Before your pots feel a thorn,{HR}Whether green or burning,{HR}Let them whirl away. (Psa. 58:9)
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Prov. 1:27• 27When your fear cometh as sudden destruction,{HR}And your calamity cometh as a whirlwind;{HR}When distress and anguish come upon you. (Prov. 1:27)
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Jer. 23:19• 19Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked. (Jer. 23:19)
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Hos. 13:3,15• 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.
 15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, a wind of Jehovah that cometh up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. (Hos. 13:3,15)
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Zech. 7:14• 14and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not, and the land was desolate after them, so that no one passed through nor returned; and they laid the pleasant land desolate. (Zech. 7:14)
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Zech. 9:14• 14And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.