Isaiah 17:13
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13 (A)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
(B)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (C)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and (D)whirling dust before the storm.
Psalm 9:5
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5 You have (A)rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;
you have (B)blotted out their name forever and ever.
Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 (A)Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh (B)the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff;
16 (C)you shall winnow them, and (D)the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
(E)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Psalm 1:4
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4 The wicked are not so,
but are like (A)chaff that the wind drives away.
Job 21:18
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Isaiah 29:5
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5 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like (A)small dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
(B)And in an instant, suddenly,
Mark 4:39-41
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39 And he awoke and (A)rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and (B)there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you (C)so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, (D)“Who then is this, that even (E)the wind and the sea obey him?”
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Hosea 13:3
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3 Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or (D)like smoke from a window.
Daniel 2:35
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35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became (A)like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that (B)not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became (C)a great mountain (D)and filled the whole earth.
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Isaiah 37:29-38
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29 (A)Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and (B)I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’
30 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah (C)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 (D)For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. (E)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or (F)cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 (G)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for (H)the sake of my servant David.”
36 (I)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at (J)Nineveh. 38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of (K)Ararat, (L)Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
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Isaiah 33:9-12
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9 (A)The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 (B)“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 (C)You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is (D)a fire that will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
(E)like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
Isaiah 33:1-3
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O Lord, Be Gracious to Us
33 (A)Ah, you destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
2 O Lord, be gracious to us; (B)we wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.
3 (C)At the tumultuous noise peoples flee;
when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Isaiah 31:8-9
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8 (A)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be (B)put to forced labor.
9 (C)His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose (D)fire is in Zion,
and whose (E)furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 30:30-33
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30 And the Lord (A)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (B)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (C)and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, (D)when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them (E)will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. (F)Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For (G)a burning place[a] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, (H)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; (I)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
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- Isaiah 30:33 Or For Topheth
Isaiah 27:1
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The Redemption of Israel
27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (A)sword will punish (B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (D)the dragon that is in the sea.
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Isaiah 25:4-5
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4 (A)For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
(B)a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
(C)for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 (D)like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.
Isaiah 14:25
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25 that (A)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (B)his yoke shall depart from them,
and (C)his burden from their shoulder.”
Isaiah 10:33-34
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33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
(A)will lop (B)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down (C)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
and (D)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.
Isaiah 10:15-16
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15 Shall (A)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
will send wasting sickness among his (B)stout warriors,
and under his glory (C)a burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.
Psalm 83:13-15
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13 O my God, make them like (A)whirling dust,[a]
like (B)chaff before the wind.
14 As (C)fire consumes the forest,
as the flame (D)sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so may you pursue them (E)with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!
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- Psalm 83:13 Or like a tumbleweed
Psalm 46:5-11
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5 (A)God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
6 (B)The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he (C)utters his voice, the earth (D)melts.
7 (E)The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
8 (F)Come, behold the works of the Lord,
how he has brought desolations on the earth.
9 (G)He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he (H)breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
(I)he burns the chariots with fire.
10 (J)“Be still, and know that I am God.
(K)I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
11 (L)The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalm 35:5
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5 Let them be like (A)chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Job 38:11
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11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your (A)proud waves be stayed’?
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