Isaiah 17:13

New International Version

Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.

Cross References

Job 21:18

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

Job 38:11

when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

Psalm 1:4

Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away;

Psalm 65:7

who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Psalm 65:8

The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy.

Psalm 9:5

You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

Isaiah 21:15

They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.

Isaiah 22:18

He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master’s house.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

Isaiah 29:5

But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 30:28

His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.

Isaiah 34:17

He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.

Isaiah 40:15

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

Isaiah 40:24

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

Isaiah 41:11

“All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.

Isaiah 8:7

therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks

Daniel 2:35

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.

Zephaniah 2:2

before the decree takes effect and that day passes like windblown chaff, before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord’s wrath comes upon you.