Isaiah 29:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then your cruel enemies will suddenly be swept away like dust in a storm.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often does he strike them like a storm that scatters straw?

Psalm 1:4

That isn't true of those who are evil, because they are like straw blown by the wind.

Psalm 35:5

Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish this evil world and its people because of their sins. I will crush the horrible pride of those who are cruel.

Isaiah 25:3

Now strong and cruel nations will fear and honour you.

Isaiah 25:4

You have been a place of safety for the poor and needy in times of trouble. Brutal enemies pounded us like a heavy rain or the heat of the sun at midday, but you were our shelter.

Isaiah 25:5

Those wild foreigners struck like scorching desert heat. But you were like a cloud, protecting us from the sun. You kept our enemies from singing songs of victory.

Isaiah 29:20

All who are cruel and arrogant will be gone for ever. Those who live by crime will disappear,

Isaiah 30:13

This sin is like a crack that makes a high wall quickly crumble

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are mere humans. They aren't God. Their horses are made of flesh; they can't live for ever. When the LORD shows his power, he will destroy the Egyptians and all who depend on them. Together they will fall.

Isaiah 31:8

The Assyrians will be killed, but not by the swords of humans. Their young men will try to escape, but they will be captured and forced into slavery.

Isaiah 37:36

The LORD sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.

Isaiah 40:15

To the LORD, all nations are merely a drop in a bucket or dust on balance scales; all the islands are but a handful of sand.

Isaiah 41:11

Everyone who hates you will be terribly disgraced; those who attack will vanish into thin air.

Isaiah 41:15

I will let you be like a log covered with sharp spikes. You will grind and crush every mountain and hill until they turn to dust.

Isaiah 41:16

A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your LORD, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 47:11

But without warning, disaster will strike— and your magic charms won't help at all.

Isaiah 48:3

Long ago I announced what was going to be, then without warning, I made it happen.

Amos 5:9

God destroys mighty soldiers and strong fortresses.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.