Isaiah 17:14

And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning your enemies will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and then steal our possessions.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

In Context

13But 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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Cross References

Judges 5:31But that is not what happened! Yahweh, I hope that all your enemies will die as Sisera did! And I desire that all those who love you will be as strong as the sun when it rises!

2 Kings 19:35That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents, and killed 185,000 of their soldiers! When the rest of their soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere!

Psalms 37:36when I looked later, they were gone! I searched for them, but Yahweh had caused them to disappear.

Isaiah 10:28The army of Assyria will enter northern Judah near Aiath town, they will go through Migron town and store their supplies at Micmash town north of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:2But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, and when that happens, people will weep and lament very much. Your city will become like [MET] an altar to me where people are burned as sacrifices.

Isaiah 33:1Terrible things will happen to you people of Assyria! You have destroyed others, but you have not been destroyed yet. You have betrayed/deceived others, but you have not been betrayed/deceived yet. When you stop destroying others, others will destroy you. When you stop betraying/deceiving others, others will betray you.

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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