Isaiah 29:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

At an

General references

Psalm 48:4

Bible References

The multitude

For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.

like heat in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.

The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.

The Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

As chaff

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord's angel attacks them!

At an

So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.

The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

General references

For look, the kings assemble; they advance together.