Isaiah 29:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

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  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  • Isa 17:13-14 : 13 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. 14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
  • Isa 30:13 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
  • Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Isa 31:8 : 8 The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.
  • Isa 25:5 : 5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
  • Ps 46:5-6 : 5 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn. 6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
  • Ps 76:5-6 : 5 Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands. 6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
  • Isa 10:16-19 : 16 Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire. 17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

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  • Isa 17:12-13
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    12 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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    15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

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    9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

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    11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

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    3 Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.

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    24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

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    19 All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.

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    7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

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    45 The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

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    37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

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    46 The foreigners shall fade away, Shall come trembling out of their close places.

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    12 The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

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    18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

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    17 Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.

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