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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 heathen, 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• ¹⁵Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
¹⁶Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord 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, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
³⁴And he shall cut down 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• ²⁵That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke 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 strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
⁵Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. (Isa. 25:4‑5)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

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Isa. 30:30‑33• ³⁰And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
³¹For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
³²And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
³³For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:30‑33)

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Isa. 31:8‑9• ⁸Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
⁹And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, 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 dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
²O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
³At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
⁹The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
¹⁰Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
¹¹Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
¹²And the people shall be as the 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 rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
³⁰And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and 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 they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
³³Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, 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 the Lord.
³⁵For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
³⁶Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
³⁷So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt 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 Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isa. 37:29‑38)

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Psa. 9:5• ⁵Thou hast rebuked the heathen, 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, and that right early.
⁶The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
⁷The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
⁸Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
⁹He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
¹¹The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. (Psa. 46:5‑11)

rebuke.

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

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Mark 4:39‑41• ³⁹And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
⁴⁰And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
⁴¹And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? (Mark 4:39‑41)

shall be.

Isa. 29:5• ⁵Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. (Isa. 29:5)

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Isa. 41:15‑16• ¹⁵Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, 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 the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 41:15‑16)

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Job 21:18• ¹⁸They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. (Job 21:18)

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Psa. 1:4• ⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like 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 the Lord chase them. (Psa. 35:5)

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Psa. 83:13‑15• ¹³O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
¹⁴As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
¹⁵So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. (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 to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that 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 that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. (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.