Isaiah 17:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    The nations{H3816} shall rush{H7582} like the rushing{H7588} of many{H7227} waters:{H4325} but he shall rebuke{H1605} them, and they shall flee{H5127} far off,{H4801} and shall be chased{H7291} as the chaff{H4671} of the mountains{H2022} before{H6440} the wind,{H7307} and like the whirling dust{H1534} before{H6440} the storm.{H5492}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The nations{H3816} shall rush{H7582}{(H8735)} like the rushing{H7588} of many{H7227} waters{H4325}: but God shall rebuke{H1605}{(H8804)} them, and they shall flee{H5127}{(H8804)} far off{H4801}, and shall be chased{H7291}{(H8795)} as the chaff{H4671} of the mountains{H2022} before{H6440} the wind{H7307}, and like a rolling thing{H1534} before{H6440} the whirlwind{H5492}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For though so many people increase as the flowinge waters, and though they be armed, yet they fle farre of, and vanish awaye like the dust with the wynde vpon an hill, and as the whyrle wynde thorow a storme.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Euen lyke many waters shal the people rage, God shall rebuke hym, and he shal flee farre of, he shalbe chased away lyke as drye strawe vpon the mountaynes before the wynde, and lyke a thyng that turneth before the storme.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:5 : 5 For you have upheld my cause, my right; you sit on your throne judging righteously.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the horde of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the horde of the ruthless ones will be like blowing chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
  • Isa 30:30-33 : 30 The LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and will display the strength of his arm with furious anger and consuming fire, with a cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. 31 At the voice of the LORD, Assyria will be shattered; he will strike them down with his rod. 32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm. 33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit is deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  • Isa 31:8-9 : 8 Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor. 9 Their stronghold will pass away because of terror, and their officers will flee in panic at the signal. This is the declaration of the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 33:1-3 : 1 Woe to you, destroyer, who has not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, who has not been betrayed! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop betraying, you will be betrayed. 2 LORD, be gracious to us! We have waited for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in times of distress. 3 At the sound of the tumult, peoples flee; when You are exalted, nations are scattered.
  • Isa 33:9-9 : 9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 10 "Now I will arise," says the LORD. "Now I will be exalted; now I will lift myself up." 11 You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you. 12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.
  • Isa 37:29-38 : 29 Because of your raging against Me and your arrogance that has reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came. 30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 Once more, a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. 32 For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. 33 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with a shield or build a siege ramp against it. 34 By the way he came, he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD. 35 I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David. 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh. 38 While he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.
  • Dan 2:35 : 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all crushed together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor. The wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.
  • Mark 4:39-41 : 39 He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace! Be still!' Then the wind died down, and it was completely calm. 40 He said to them, 'Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?' 41 They were terrified and asked one another, 'Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!'
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, as the angel of the Lord drives them away.
  • Ps 46:5-9 : 5 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling places of the Most High. 6 God is within her, she will not be moved; God will help her at the break of dawn. 7 Nations rage, kingdoms totter; He lifts His voice, the earth melts. 8 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah. 9 Come, see the works of the LORD, who has brought desolation upon the earth. 10 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; He breaks the bow, cuts the spear in two, and burns the chariots with fire. 11 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • Ps 83:13-15 : 13 who said, 'Let us take possession of the pastures of God for ourselves.' 14 My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 15 As fire burns a forest, and as flames set the mountains ablaze,
  • Isa 10:15-16 : 15 Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood. 16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send leanness among his robust ones, and under his glory, a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
  • Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, and the lofty ones will be humbled. 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
  • Isa 14:25 : 25 I will break Assyria in My land and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be taken off their shoulders, and his burden removed from their necks.
  • Isa 25:4-5 : 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat – for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall. 5 Like heat in a dry land, you subdue the uproar of foreigners; as heat is subdued by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 On that day, the LORD will punish with his fierce, great, and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'

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