Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Rebuke

Job 38:11

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
Mark 4:39
And He got up and [sternly] rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still (muzzled)!” And the wind died down [as if it had grown weary] and there was [at once] a great calm [a perfect peacefulness].

Shall be

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your enemies [that assault you] will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the tyrants like the chaff which blows away;
And it will happen in an instant, suddenly [that your enemy is destroyed].
Isaiah 41:15

“In fact, I have made of you a new, sharp threshing implement with sharp edges;
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
And make the hills like chaff.
Job 21:18

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?
Psalm 1:4

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.
Psalm 35:5

Let them be [blown away] like chaff before the wind [worthless, without substance],
With the angel of the Lord driving them on.
Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together and became like the chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them could be found. And the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be [swiftly dissipated] like the morning cloud
Or like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which swirls with the whirlwind from the threshing floor,
And like smoke from the chimney or through the window [worthless and without substance —they will vanish].

General references

Isaiah 33:3

At the sound of the tumult, the peoples flee;
At the lifting up of Yourself nations scatter.