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Isaiah 30

Isa. 30:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And his breath
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
, as an overflowing
shataph (Hebrew #7857)
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
KJV usage: drown, (over-)flow(- whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
Pronounce: shaw-taf'
Origin: a primitive root
stream
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
, shall reach to the midst
chatsah (Hebrew #2673)
to cut or split in two; to halve
KJV usage: divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle
Pronounce: khaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2086))
of the neck
tsavva'r (Hebrew #6677)
or tsavvaron (Song of Solomon 4:9) {tsav-vaw-rone'}; or (feminine) tsavva.rah (Micah 2:3) {tsav-vaw-raw'}; intensively from 6696 in the sense of binding; the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound)
KJV usage: neck.
Pronounce: tsav-vawr'
Origin: or tsavvar (Nehemiah 3:5) {tsav-vawr'}
, to sift
nuwph (Hebrew #5130)
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
KJV usage: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
Pronounce: noof
Origin: a primitive root
c the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
with the sieve
naphah (Hebrew #5299)
a height; also a sieve
KJV usage: border, coast, region, sieve.
Pronounce: naw-faw'
Origin: from 5130 in the sense of lifting
of vanity
shav' (Hebrew #7723)
from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
KJV usage: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: shawv
Origin: or shav {shav}
: and there shall be a bridle
recen (Hebrew #7448)
a halter (as restraining); by implication, the jaw
KJV usage: bridle.
Pronounce: reh'-sen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to curb
d in the jaws
lchiy (Hebrew #3895)
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
KJV usage: cheek (bone), jaw (bone).
Pronounce: lekh-ee'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be soft
of the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, causing them to err
ta`ah (Hebrew #8582)
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Pronounce: taw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Luke 22:31• 31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you as wheat; (Luke 22:31)
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Isa. 37:29• 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. (Isa. 37:29)

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his breath.
Isa. 11:4• 4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (Isa. 11:4)
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Psa. 18:15• 15And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. (Psa. 18:15)
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Luke 22:31• 31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you as wheat; (Luke 22:31)
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2 Thess. 2:8• 8and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming; (2 Thess. 2:8)
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Heb. 4:12• 12For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb. 4:12)
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Rev. 1:16• 16and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance as the sun shines in its power. (Rev. 1:16)
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Rev. 2:16• 16Repent therefore: but if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword of my mouth. (Rev. 2:16)
an overflowing.
Isa. 8:8• 8and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel! (Isa. 8:8)
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Isa. 28:17‑18• 17And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
 18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isa. 28:17‑18)
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Isa. 29:6• 6Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. (Isa. 29:6)
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Hab. 3:12‑15• 12Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
 13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.
 14Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.
 15Thou didst walk through the sea with thy horses, The heap of great waters. (Hab. 3:12‑15)
to sift.Bp. Lowth renders, "to toss the nations with the van of perdition;" that is, says {Kimchi,} nothing useful shall remain behind, but all shall come to nothing and perish.
The van of the ancients was a large instrument, somewhat like a shovel, with a long handle, with which they tossed the corn mixed with the chaff and chopped straw into the air, that the wind might separate them.
Isa. 19:12,14• 12Where are they then, thy wise men? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
 14Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:12,14)
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Isa. 33:10‑12• 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. 33:10‑12)
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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)
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Amos 9:9• 9For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh corn in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:9)
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Matt. 3:12• 12whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. (Matt. 3:12)
a bridle.
Isa. 37:29• 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. (Isa. 37:29)
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2 Kings 19:28• 28Because 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. (2 Kings 19:28)
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Psa. 32:9• 9Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee. (Psa. 32:9)
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Prov. 26:3• 3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. (Prov. 26:3)
causing.
Isa. 19:3,13‑14• 3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.
 13The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err.
 14Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:3,13‑14)
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2 Sam. 17:14• 14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom. (2 Sam. 17:14)
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1 Kings 22:20‑22• 20and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one said after this manner, and another said after that manner.
 21And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him.
 22And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and also succeed: go forth, and do so. (1 Kings 22:20‑22)
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Job 39:17• 17For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. (Job 39:17)
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Ezek. 14:7‑9• 7For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire of me by him, I Jehovah will answer him by myself;
 8and I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate, so that he shall be for a sign and for proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 9And if the prophet be enticed and shall speak a word, I Jehovah have enticed that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. (Ezek. 14:7‑9)
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2 Thess. 2:11• 11And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false, (2 Thess. 2:11)
• The tremendous judgments upon the nations, of verses 28 and 30, which will make the song to rise and the holy solemnity to be kept in the mountain of the Lord, who will be known as “the Mighty one [Rock] of Israel.” (“Isaiah 30” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destructionc, and to put a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.

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Or "vanity."