Isaiah 29:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,”
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“But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Moreover 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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant--suddenly.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 29:5 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalms 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
- Psalms 76:5The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
- Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 25:5like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- Isaiah 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
- Isaiah 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Isaiah 31:8“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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