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Isa. 17:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: butt 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 δa rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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Psa. 9:5• ⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. (Psa. 9:5)

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or, thistledown.

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but.

Isa. 10:15‑16,33‑34• ¹⁵--Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood!
¹⁶Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
³³Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;
³⁴and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (Isa. 10:15‑16,33‑34)

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Isa. 14:25• ²⁵to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. (Isa. 14:25)

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Isa. 25:4‑5• ⁴For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones has been as the storm against a wall.
⁵Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; as the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the terrible ones is brought low. (Isa. 25:4‑5)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

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Isa. 30:30‑33• ³⁰And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.
³¹For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be broken down: he will smite him with the rod.
³²And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.
³³For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared: he hath made it deep and large; its pile is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:30‑33)

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Isa. 31:8‑9• ⁸And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;
⁹and for fear, he shall pass over to his rock, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. (Isa. 31:8‑9)

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Isa. 33:1‑3,9‑12• ¹Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
²Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be their arm every morning, yea, our salvation in the time of trouble.
³At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
⁹The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.
¹⁰Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I be exalted, now will I lift up myself.
¹¹Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you as fire.
¹²And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. (Isa. 33:1‑3,9‑12)

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Isa. 37:29‑38• ²⁹Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.
³⁰And this shall be the sign unto thee: there shall be eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.
³¹And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
³²for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.
³³Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
³⁵And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
³⁶And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
³⁷And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.
³⁸And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isa. 37:29‑38)

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Psa. 9:5• ⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. (Psa. 9:5)

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Psa. 46:5‑11• ⁵God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.
⁶The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
⁷Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.
⁸Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:
⁹He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.
¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
¹¹Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah. (Psa. 46:5‑11)

rebuke.

Job 38:11• ¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? (Job 38:11)

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Mark 4:39‑41• ³⁹And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great calm.
⁴⁰And he said to them, Why are ye thus fearful? how is it ye have not faith?
⁴¹And they feared with great fear, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? (Mark 4:39‑41)

shall be.

Isa. 29:5• ⁵And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly. (Isa. 29:5)

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Isa. 41:15‑16• ¹⁵Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;
¹⁶thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)

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Job 21:18• ¹⁸Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? (Job 21:18)

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Psa. 1:4• ⁴The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away. (Psa. 1:4)

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Psa. 35:5• ⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive them away; (Psa. 35:5)

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Psa. 83:13‑15• ¹³O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
¹⁴As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind. (Psa. 83:13‑15)

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Dan. 2:35• ³⁵Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken in pieces together, and they became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. (Dan. 2:35)

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Hos. 13:3• ³Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice. (Hos. 13:3)

a rolling thing.

or, thistle-down.

• Jerusalem and the Jews will indeed be heavily chastised, but the proud nations themselves will meet ultimately the fury of God and be scattered before Him, like chaff or thistle down is blown away by a whirlwind. (“Isaiah 17” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The nationse rush as the rushing of many waters; but hef will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:

JND Translation Notes

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Leummim, races of mankind. see Ps. 2.1.

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i.e. God.