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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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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 40:24
18th Century
Theologian
Yea, they shall not be planted - The kings and rulers are meant—especially those who oppose God in the execution of His purposes. T…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 40:24
19th Century
Bishop
They shall not be planted ... —Better, Hardly are they planted, hardly are they sown. Such are empires before the eternit…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 40:21–26
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Isaiah 40:24
16th Century
Theologian
It is as if they had not been planted. Though the particle אף (aph) signifies also, in this passage it may be more appro…
John Gill
On Isaiah 40:24
17th Century
Pastor
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…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 40:18–26
17th Century
Minister
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…