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Isaiah 17:13 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 17 · verse 13
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.Isaiah 17:13 · King James Version
Isaiah 17:13 in context
11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13The 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.
14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- nationslᵉʼôma communityH3816 →
- rushingshâʼôwnuproarH7588 →
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
- rebukegâʻarto chideH1605 →
- chasedrâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- chaffmôtschaff (as pressed outH4671 →
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These verses read the doom of those that spoil and rob the people of God. If the Assyrians and Israelites invade and plunder Judah, if the Assyrian army take God's people captive and lay their country waste, let them know that ruin will be their lot and portion. They are here brought in, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-14