Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Isaiah 40:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 24 They are hardly planted,
  They are hardly sown,
  Their stem has hardly taken root in the earth,
  And they are blown on and dry up,
  And the wind carries them away like stubble.+

Isaiah 40:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 24 They are hardly planted,
  They are hardly sown,
  Their stem has hardly taken root in the earth,
  And they are blown on and dry up,
  And the wind carries them away like stubble.+

Isaiah 40:24

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 24 Never yet have they been planted; never yet have they been sown; never yet has their stump taken root in the earth.+ And one has only to blow upon them and they dry up;+ and like stubble the windstorm itself will carry them away.+

Isaiah 40:24

The Bible in Living English
- 24 they have not even been planted, the seed has not even been sown for them, the cuttings for them have not even rooted, and he has blown on them too and they have dried out; and a tempest carries them off like straw.

Isaiah 40:24

American Standard Version
- 24 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.

Isaiah 40:24

The Emphasized Bible
- 24 Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely hath their stock begun to take root in the earth When he hath just blown upon them and they have withered, And a whirlwind as though they had been chaff carrieth them away.