Isaiah 17:12

World English Bible (2000)

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

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  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
  • Jer 6:23 : 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."
  • Luke 21:25 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
  • Ezek 43:2 : 2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
  • Rev 17:1 : 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
  • Ps 29:3 : 3 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
  • Ps 46:1-3 : 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; 3 though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
  • Ps 65:6-7 : 6 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength; 7 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Isa 5:26-30 : 26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. 8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
  • Isa 9:5 : 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
  • Isa 28:17 : 17 I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

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  • Isa 17:13
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    13 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.

  • Isa 13:4
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    4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.

  • Ps 65:7
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    7 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

  • Ps 98:7
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    7 Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Jer 25:30-32
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    30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

    31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.

    32 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

  • Rev 17:15
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    15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

  • Isa 33:3
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    3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

  • Isa 57:20
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    20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Jer 51:42
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    42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

  • Isa 34:1
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    1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

  • Ps 93:3-4
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    3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

    4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

  • Nah 3:2
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    2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

  • Isa 30:28
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    28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

  • Isa 24:14
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    14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

  • Ps 29:3
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    3 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

  • Joel 3:14
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    14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

  • Zeph 1:10
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    10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • Joel 2:2
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    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

  • Ezek 26:17-18
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    17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

    18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.

  • Isa 18:2-3
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    2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

    3 All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

  • Jer 51:55
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    55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

  • Ps 46:3
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    3 though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

  • Joel 2:5
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    5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

  • Isa 29:5
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    5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

  • 2 Chr 15:6
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    6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Isa 28:2
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    2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

  • Ezek 26:3
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    3 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • 1 Chr 16:32
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    32 Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is therein!

  • Amos 8:8
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    8 Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • Ezek 7:14
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    14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.

  • Ezek 7:11
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    11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.

  • Isa 8:9
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    9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

  • Luke 21:25
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    25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

  • Ezek 27:34-35
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    34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.

    35 All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.

  • Jer 50:46
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    46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • Jer 47:2
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    2 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

  • Jer 5:22
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    22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

  • Jer 46:7
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    7 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Ezek 7:7
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    7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.