Isaiah 29:5

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

Job 21:18

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

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.

Isaiah 13:11

The Lord says, “I will punish the world for its evil and wicked people for their sins. I will cause proud people to lose their pride, and I will destroy the pride of those who are cruel to others.

Isaiah 25:3

People from powerful nations will honor you; cruel people from strong cities will fear you.

Isaiah 25:4

You protect the poor; you protect the helpless when they are in danger. You are like a shelter from storms, like shade that protects them from the heat. The cruel people attack like a rainstorm beating against the wall,

Isaiah 25:5

like the heat in the desert. But you, God, stop their violent attack. As a cloud cools a hot day, you silence the songs of those who have no mercy.

Isaiah 29:20

Then the people without mercy will come to an end; those who do not respect God will disappear. Those who enjoy doing evil will be gone:

Isaiah 30:13

You are guilty of these things. So you will be like a high wall with cracks in it that falls suddenly and breaks into small pieces.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are only people and are not God. Their horses are only animals and are not spirit. The Lord will stretch out his arm, and the one who helps will stumble, and the people who wanted help will fall. All of them will be destroyed together.

Isaiah 31:8

“Assyria will be defeated by a sword, but not the sword of a person; Assyria will be destroyed, but not by a person’s sword. Assyria will run away from the sword of God, but its young men will be caught and made slaves.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies.

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 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 41:15

Look, I have made you like a new threshing board with many sharp teeth. So you will walk on mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff.

Isaiah 41:16

You will throw them into the air, and the wind will carry them away; a windstorm will scatter them. Then you will be happy in the Lord; you will be proud of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:11

But troubles will come to you, and you will not know how to stop them. Disaster will fall on you, and you will not be able to keep it away. You will be destroyed quickly; you will not even see it coming.

Isaiah 48:3

Long ago I told you what would happen. I said these things and made them known; suddenly I acted, and these things happened.

Amos 5:9

He destroys the protected city; he ruins the strong, walled city.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “We have peace and we are safe,” they will be destroyed quickly. It is like pains that come quickly to a woman having a baby. Those people will not escape.