Isaiah 17:13
But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind blows, like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
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Job 21:18He does not blow them away like wind blows away straw; they are never carried off by a whirlwind.
Psalms 1:4But wicked people are not like that! Wicked people are as worthless as chaff that is blown away by the wind.
Psalms 35:5Send your angel to pursue them, and as a result cause them to disappear like chaff/straw blown away by the wind!
Psalms 65:8People who live in very remote/distant places on the earth ◄are awed by/revere► you because of the miracles that you perform; because of what you do, people who live far to the west and far to the east shout joyfully.
Psalms 83:14Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
Isaiah 10:33But listen to this! The Commander of the armies of angels with his great power will destroy [MET] the mighty army of Assyria. It is as though they are a huge tree [MET] that he will cut 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 →