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Isaiah 17:13

The 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.

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ASV

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

KJV

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.

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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לְאֻמִּ֗יםle.'u.MimnationsH3816 →
כִּשְׁא֞וֹןkish.'onlike [the] uproar ofH7588 →
מַ֤יִםMa.yimwatersH4325 →
רַבִּים֙ra.BimmanyH7227 →
יִשָּׁא֔וּןyi.sha.'Unthey are in an uproar !H7582 →
וְגָ֥עַרve.Ga.'arand he will rebukeH1605 →
בּ֖וֹbo<in> it
וְנָ֣סve.Nasand it will fleeH5127 →
מִמֶּרְחָ֑קmi.mer.Chakfrom a distanceH4801 →
וְרֻדַּ֗ףve.ru.Dafand it will be chasedH7291 →
כְּמֹ֤ץke.Motzlike chaff ofH4671 →
הָרִים֙ha.RimmountainsH2022 →
לִפְנֵי־lif.nei-<to> beforeH6440 →
ר֔וּחַRu.acha windH7307 →
וּכְגַלְגַּ֖לu.khe.gal.Galand like whirling dustH1534 →
לִפְנֵ֥יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440 →
סוּפָֽה׃su.Faha storm-windH5492 →

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Zephaniah 2:2before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.Psalms 9:5You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.Isaiah 22:18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.Isaiah 41:15–16Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.Mark 4:39–41Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.Psalms 46:5–11God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.Isaiah 31:8–9“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.Isaiah 10:15–16Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?Isaiah 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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