Isaiah 17:13
The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.
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Job 21:18Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?
Psalms 1:4But it's not like that for the wicked! They are like chaff, blown away by the wind.
Psalms 35:5Let them be like chaff blown by the wind; let the angel of the Lord drive them away.
Psalms 65:8Everyone, even those in distant lands, are amazed by the wonderful things you do, from the east to the west they sing for joy.
Psalms 83:14Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
Isaiah 10:33Look how the Lord Almighty is going to chop off the branches with great force. The tall trees will be cut down, the proud trees will be brought crashing down.
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 →