Isaiah 29:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

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  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Isa 17:13-14 : 13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm. 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
  • Isa 31:3 : 3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
  • Isa 31:8 : 8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.
  • Isa 25:5 : 5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
  • Ps 46:5-6 : 5 God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning. 6 The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.
  • Ps 76:5-6 : 5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble. 6 At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.
  • Isa 10:16-19 : 16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame. 17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day. 18 And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease. 19 And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

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    6 The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.

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    5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12 Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!

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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

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    9 And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.

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    11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

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    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

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    19 All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

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    7 See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

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    45 They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

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    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

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    46 They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

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