Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Bible References
As stubble
Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Exodus 15:7
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
Psalm 83:13
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
Isaiah 40:24
They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."