Isaiah 29:5

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Job 21:18

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

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!

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.

Isaiah 25:3

So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

Isaiah 25:4

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

Isaiah 25:5

like heat in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.

Isaiah 29:20

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –

Isaiah 30:13

So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.

Isaiah 31:8

Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.

Isaiah 37:36

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

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 41:11

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

Isaiah 41:15

“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 47:11

Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

Isaiah 48:3

“I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

Amos 5:9

He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)

1 Thessalonians 5:3

Now when they are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.