Isaiah 17:13

many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

In Context

12Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the + 17:12 Gr. back; Complut. reads ἠχος, ‘noise’.force of many nations shall sound like water;

14Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

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Cross References

Job 21:18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

Psalms 1:4Not so the ungodly;—not so: but rather as the + 1:4 Or, dust or down.chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

Psalms 35:5He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

Psalms 65:8Bless our God, ye Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:13-14

The Doom of Syria and Israel. ( b. c. 712.) 12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. 14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.… Read the whole commentary →

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