Isaiah 29:5
But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,
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Psalms 1:4Not so the ungodly—not so: 1 But rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth. 1
Psalms 46:5He has chosen out his inheritance for us, 1 The beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause. 1
Isaiah 10:16but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon thine honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory.
Isaiah 25:5We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Zion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.
Isaiah 31:3even an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.
Isaiah 37:36And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:2-9
The Punishment of Ariel. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one… Read the whole commentary →