Isaiah 17:13
The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.
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Job 21:18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Psalms 1:4The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.
Psalms 65:8They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.
Psalms 83:14As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:
Isaiah 10:33Beholde, the Lord God of hostes shall cut off the bough with feare, and they of high stature shalbe cut off, and the hie shalbe humbled.
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 →