Isaiah 29:5

God's Word

Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw in the wind or like husks that the storm sweeps away?

Psalm 1:4

Wicked people are not like that. Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like husks blown by the wind as the Messenger of the Lord chases them.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their wrongdoing. I will put an end to arrogant people and humble the pride of tyrants.

Isaiah 25:3

That is why strong people will honor you, and cities ruled by the world’s tyrants will fear you.

Isaiah 25:4

You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rain, and shade from the heat. (A tyrant’s breath is like a rainstorm against a wall,

Isaiah 25:5

like heat in a dry land.) You calm the uproar of foreigners. The song of tyrants is silenced like heat that is ⌞reduced⌟ by the shadow of a cloud.

Isaiah 29:20

Tyrants will be gone. Mockers will be finished. All who look for ways to do wrong will come to an end:

Isaiah 30:13

That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are humans, not gods. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. When the Lord uses his powerful hand, the one who gives help will stumble, and the one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.

Isaiah 31:8

Then Assyrians will be killed with swords not made by human hands. Swords not made by human hands will destroy them. They will flee from battle, and their young men will be made to do forced labor.

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s angel went out and killed 185,000 ⌞soldiers⌟ in the Assyrian camp. When the Judeans got up early in the morning, they saw all the corpses.

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are like a drop in a bucket and are considered to be like dust on a scale. The weight of the islands is like fine dust.

Isaiah 41:11

“Everyone who is angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be reduced to nothing and disappear.

Isaiah 41:15

“I am going to make you into a new threshing  sledge with sharp, double-edged teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them to dust. You will turn the hills into straw.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow  them. The wind will carry them away. The windstorm will scatter them. But you will find joy in the Lord and praise the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil will happen to you. You won’t know how to keep it away. Disaster will strike you. You won’t be able to stop it. Destruction will overtake you suddenly. You won’t expect it.

Isaiah 48:3

From the beginning I revealed to you what would happen. These words came out of my mouth, and I made them known. Suddenly, I acted, and they happened.

Amos 5:9

He destroys strongholds and ruins fortresses.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.