Isaiah 17:13

New Century Version

The people roar like the waves, but when God speaks harshly to them, they will run away. They will be like chaff on the hills being blown by the wind, or like tumbleweeds blown away by a storm.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw in the wind or like chaff that is blown away by a storm?

Job 38:11

when I said to the sea, ‘You may come this far, but no farther; this is where your proud waves must stop’?

Psalm 1:4

But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

Make them like chaff blown by the wind as the angel of the Lord forces them away.

Psalm 65:7

You stopped the roaring seas, the roaring waves, and the uproar of the nations.

Psalm 65:8

Even those people at the ends of the earth fear your miracles. You are praised from where the sun rises to where it sets.

Psalm 9:5

You spoke strongly against the foreign nations and destroyed the wicked; you wiped out their names forever and ever.

Isaiah 14:25

I will destroy the king of Assyria in my country; I will trample him on my mountains. He placed a heavy load on my people, but that weight will be removed.

Isaiah 21:15

They were running from swords, from swords ready to kill, from bows ready to shoot, from a hard battle.

Isaiah 22:18

and roll you tightly into a ball and throw you into another country. There you will die, and there your fine chariots will remain. You are a disgrace to your master’s house.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish Leviathan, the gliding snake. He will punish Leviathan, the coiled snake, with his great and hard and powerful sword. He will kill the monster in the sea.

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will become like fine dust; the many cruel people will be like chaff that is blown away. Everything will happen very quickly.

Isaiah 30:28

His breath is like a rushing river, which rises to the throat. He will judge the nations as if he is sifting them through the strainer of destruction. He will place in their mouths a bit that will lead them the wrong way.

Isaiah 34:17

God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.

Isaiah 40:15

The nations are like one small drop in a bucket; they are no more than the dust on his measuring scales. To him the islands are no more than fine dust on his scales.

Isaiah 40:24

They are like plants that are placed in the ground, like seeds that are planted. As soon as they begin to grow strong, he blows on them and they die, and the wind blows them away like chaff.

Isaiah 41:11

“All those people who are angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who are against you will disappear and be lost.

Isaiah 8:7

So I, the Lord, will bring the king of Assyria and all his power against them, like a powerful flood of water from the Euphrates River. The Assyrians will be like water rising over the banks of the river, flowing over the land.

Daniel 2:35

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold broke to pieces at the same time. They became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summertime; the wind blew them away, and there was nothing left. Then the rock that hit the statue became a very large mountain that filled the whole earth.

Hosea 13:3

So those people will be like the morning mist; they will disappear like the morning dew. They will be like chaff blown from the threshing floor, like smoke going out a window.

Zephaniah 2:2

Do it before it’s too late, before you are blown away like chaff, before the Lord’s terrible anger reaches you, before the day of the Lord’s anger comes to you.