Isaiah 40:24
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.
Cross-reference
In Isaiah 40:7, the same 'grass withers' imagery appears with the identical motif of God's breath causing fading.
In Isaiah 41:16, the wind carries away enemies like chaff — same winnowing metaphor for God's judgment.
In Isaiah 17:13, nations are chased like chaff before the wind — identical imagery of being blown away like stubble.
In Isaiah 11:4, the breath of God's lips slays the wicked — echoing the destructive power of God's breath here.
In Isaiah 37:7, God puts a spirit in Sennacherib to make him fall — God's control over rulers, parallel to the withering of planted rulers.
In Isaiah 14:21, God judges Babylon by slaughtering the king's sons, a specific example of rulers being cut off like the plants here.
In Isaiah 14:22, God cuts off Babylon's name and remnant, illustrating total removal of a ruling dynasty as in the withering plants.
In Isaiah 30:33, the breath of the LORD kindles Topheth — a similar image of God's breath as an agent of judgment.
In Job 4:9, the breath of God causes the wicked to perish — direct parallel to the withering by God's breath here.
Hosea 13:15 warns of an east wind from the Lord that withers prosperity, similar to the blowing that causes withering.
Hosea 13:3 uses chaff, mist, and smoke to depict fleetingness — the same point as the withering plants.
Jeremiah 23:19 describes God's whirlwind of wrath bursting on the wicked, matching the storm imagery here.
Job 21:18 uses identical imagery of chaff swept by storm, reinforcing the fragility of the wicked before God's power.
In Job 18:16-19, roots dry and branches wither, and the wicked have no posterity—mirroring the plant metaphor for rulers' transience.
In Job 15:30-33, the wicked's shoots dry up and branches wither, using the same plant imagery for sudden destruction under God's breath.
Proverbs 10:25 says the tempest carries away the wicked — matching the sudden destruction imagery here.
Psalm 83:13 uses the same 'chaff before the wind' imagery, reinforcing that God scatters the wicked like stubble.
Hosea 9:16 describes a dried-up root and no fruit — similar plant imagery for divine judgment.
In Jeremiah 22:30, God declares King Coniah childless, a specific case of a ruler's line cut off as the plants here are swept away.
In Nahum 1:14, God cuts off Nineveh's name — a specific fulfillment of the principle that God's breath ends proud nations.
Proverbs 1:27 compares calamity to a whirlwind, paralleling the storm that carries off the planted rulers.
Psalm 58:9 pictures God's whirlwind sweeping away the wicked before they can act, echoing sudden judgment.
In 2 Samuel 22:16, the blast of God's nostrils reveals cosmic power — same breath imagery but in a deliverance context.
In Haggai 1:9, God blows on their harvest because of neglect — divine blowing as judgment, though on a different subject.
Zechariah 7:14 says God scattered Israel with a whirlwind, a different context but same wind of judgment.
Zechariah 9:14 depicts God marching in whirlwinds, associating the storm with divine action, similar to the Lord blowing.