Isaiah 40:24

Isa 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.

Ver. 24. Yea, they shall not be planted. ] They are like grass, that is neither planted nor well rooted; but as weeds that grow on the top of the water, vel tanquam podii folium, quod mane candidum, meridie purpureum, vespere caeruleum aspicitur. a

And he shall blow upon them. ] Two fits of an ague shook to death great Tamerlane, in the midst of his preparations for the conquest of Turkey.

a Jerome.