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Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
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Earthly Power is Temporary
Commentators explain that the verse uses powerful agricultural imagery—a plant that is never sown, planted, or takes root—to illustrate a profound truth: even the mightiest kings and empires are incredibly fragile and temporary before God. Their power and legacy can be so completely erased that it is as if they never existed.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, they shall not be planted - The kings and rulers are meant—especially those who oppose God in the execution of His purposes. T…
19th Century
Anglican
They shall not be planted ... —Better, Hardly are they planted, hardly are they sown. Such are empires before the eternit…
Baptist
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?…
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16th Century
Protestant
It is as if they had not been planted. Though the particle אף (aph) signifies also, in this passage it may be more appro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, they shall not be planted As trees are, like the cedars in Lebanon, though they may seem to be such; but be like the…
Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. Eve…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Be comforted, be comforted. This is the second principal part of this book, in which the prophet primarily intends to comfort th…
