Isaiah 17:13
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
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Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.
Psalms 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
Psalms 83:14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
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 →