Isaiah 29:5

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Summary

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.

The multitude

As chaff

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Bible References

The multitude

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

As chaff

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

At an

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.