Isaiah 17:13
The nations will roar like the rushing of many waters, 1 but he will rebuke them and they will flee far away, 1 they will be chased before the wind like chaff on the mountains, 1 and like weeds whirling before a storm. 1
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Job 21:18How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind 1 or like chaff that the storm carries away? 1
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, 1 but are instead like the chaff that the wind drives away. 1
Psalms 35:5May they be as chaff before the wind, 1 as the angel of Yahweh drives them away. 1
Psalms 65:8Those who live in the uttermost parts of the earth are afraid of the evidence of your deeds; 1 you make the east and the west rejoice. 1
Psalms 83:14like the fire that burns the forest, 1 and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire. 1
Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will lop off the boughs with a terrifying crash; 1 the tallest trees will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. 1
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 →