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Isaiah 30:28

His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

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ASV

and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

KJV

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְרוּח֞וֹve.ru.Choand breath hisH7307 →
כְּנַ֤חַלke.Na.chal[is] like a torrentH5158 →
שׁוֹטֵף֙sho.TefoverflowingH7857 →
עַד־'ad-toH5704 →
צַוָּ֣ארtza.Var[the] neckH6677 →
יֶֽחֱצֶ֔הye.che.Tzehit reachesH2673 →
לַהֲנָפָ֥הla.ha.na.Fahfor shakingH5130 →
גוֹיִ֖םgo.YimnationsH1471 →
בְּנָ֣פַתbe.Na.fatin a sieve ofH5299 →
שָׁ֑וְאShav'worthlessnessH7723 →
וְרֶ֣סֶןve.Re.senand a halterH7448 →
מַתְעֶ֔הmat.'Eh[which] leads astrayH8582 →
עַ֖ל'al[is] onH5921 →
לְחָיֵ֥יle.cha.Yei[the] jaws ofH3895 →
עַמִּֽים׃'a.MimpeoplesH5971 →

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Isaiah 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’2 Thessalonians 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.Isaiah 8:8It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!Luke 22:31Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.2 Kings 19:28Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’Amos 9:9“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.Revelation 2:16Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!Job 39:17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.2 Thessalonians 2:11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,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.”Ezekiel 14:7–9For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.1 Kings 22:20–22And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.Isaiah 19:12–14Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

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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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