Isaiah 17:13

New English Translation

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

Cross References

Job 21:18

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

Job 38:11

when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

Psalm 1:4

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

Psalm 35:5

May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord’s angel attacks them!

Psalm 65:7

You calm the raging seas and their roaring waves, as well as the commotion made by the nations.

Psalm 65:8

Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

Psalm 9:5

You terrified the nations with your battle cry; you destroyed the wicked; you permanently wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 14:25

I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.

Isaiah 21:15

For they flee from the swords – from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.

Isaiah 22:18

He will wind you up tightly into a ball and throw you into a wide, open land. There you will die, and there with you will be your impressive chariots, which bring disgrace to the house of your master.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

Isaiah 29:5

But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 30:28

His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river that reaches one’s neck. He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction.

Isaiah 34:17

He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.

Isaiah 40:15

Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

Isaiah 40:24

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

Isaiah 41:11

Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

Isaiah 8:7

So look, the sovereign master is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River – the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.

Daniel 2:35

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

Zephaniah 2:2

before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the Lord’s raging anger overtakes you – before the day of the Lord’s angry judgment overtakes you!