Isaiah 17:13

WEB

¹³The 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.

KJV

¹³The 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.

BSB

¹³The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

FBV

¹³^[+] The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he^[+] them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.

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Extra References

Psalms 9:5

⁵You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Psalms 1:4

⁴The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Isaiah 41:15-16

¹⁵Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Job 21:18

¹⁸How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Isaiah 29:5

⁵But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 30:30-33

³⁰The LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. ³¹For through the LORD’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. ³²Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. ³³For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The LORD’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Job 38:11

¹¹and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

Isaiah 33:9-12

⁹The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare. ¹⁰“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. ¹¹You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. ¹²The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

Psalms 46:5-11

⁵God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn. ⁶The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted. ⁷The LORD of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. ⁸Come, see the LORD’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth. ⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire. ¹⁰“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” ¹¹The LORD of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Isaiah 25:4-5

⁴For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. ⁵As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.