Isaiah 17:13
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13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][a]
he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and like whirling dust before the storm.(A)
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- 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters
Psalm 9:5
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5 You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.(A)
Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 I will make of you a threshing sledge,
sharp, new, and having teeth;
you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff.(A)
16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
Then you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.(B)
Psalm 1:4
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4 The wicked are not so
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.(A)
Job 21:18
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18 How often are they like straw before the wind
and like chaff that the storm carries away?(A)
Isaiah 29:5
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5 But the multitude of your arrogant ones[a] shall be like fine dust
and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,(A)
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- 29.5 Q ms Compare Gk: MT strangers
Mark 4:39-41
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39 And waking up, he rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Be silent! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”(A) 41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
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Hosea 13:3
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3 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
or like the dew that goes away early,
like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.(A)
Daniel 2:35
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35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.(A)
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Isaiah 37:29-38
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29 Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.(A)
30 “And this shall be the sign for you: This year eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,(B) 32 for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.(C)
33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord. 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”(D)
Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(E) 37 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh. 38 As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.(F)
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Isaiah 33:9-12
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9 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 “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 You conceive chaff; you bring forth stubble;
wind like a fire[a] will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.”
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- 33.11 Cn: Heb your breath
Isaiah 33:1-3
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A Prophecy of Deliverance from Foes
33 Woe to the destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed;
you treacherous one,
with whom no one has dealt treacherously!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have stopped dealing treacherously,
you will be dealt with treacherously.(A)
2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.(B)
3 At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;
before your majesty, nations scattered.(C)
Isaiah 31:8-9
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8 “Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of mortals,
and a sword not of humans shall devour him;
he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be put to forced labor.(A)
9 His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion
and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.(B)
Isaiah 30:30-33
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30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.(A) 31 The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord when he strikes with his rod.(B) 32 And every stroke of the staff of punishment[a] that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres with dancing;[b] with brandished arm he will fight with him.(C) 33 For his burning place[c] has long been prepared, also for the king;[d] its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.(D)
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Isaiah 27:1
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Israel’s Redemption
27 On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.(A)
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Isaiah 25:4-5
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4 For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat.
When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm,(A)
5 the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry place,
you subdued the heat with the shade of clouds;
the song of the ruthless was stilled.(B)
Isaiah 14:25
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25 I will break the Assyrian in my land
and on my mountains trample him under foot;
his yoke shall be removed from them
and his burden from their shoulders.(A)
Isaiah 10:33-34
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33 Look, the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
will lop the boughs with terrifying power;
the tallest trees will be cut down,
and the lofty will be brought low.(A)
34 He will hack down the thickets of the forest with an ax,
and Lebanon with its majestic trees[a] will fall.
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- 10.34 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb with a majestic one
Isaiah 10:15-16
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15 Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it
or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!(A)
16 Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled
like the burning of fire.(B)
Psalm 83:13-15
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Psalm 46:5-11
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5 God is in the midst of the city;[a] it shall not be moved;
God will help it when the morning dawns.(A)
6 The nations are in an uproar; the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice; the earth melts.(B)
7 The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.[b] Selah(C)
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord;
see what desolations he has brought on the earth.(D)
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.(E)
10 “Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations;
I am exalted in the earth.”(F)
11 The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.[c] Selah
Psalm 35:5
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5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them on.(A)
Job 38:11
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11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(A)
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