18 Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff(A) a storm sweeps away?

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18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(A) swept away(B) by a gale?(C)

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18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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Your many foes[a] will be like fine dust,(A)
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,(B)
you will be visited by the Lord of Hosts
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.(C)
All the many nations(D)
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:5 Lit foreigners

But your many enemies will become like fine dust,(A)
    the ruthless(B) hordes like blown chaff.(C)
Suddenly,(D) in an instant,
    the Lord Almighty will come(E)
with thunder(F) and earthquake(G) and great noise,
    with windstorm and tempest(H) and flames of a devouring fire.(I)
Then the hordes of all the nations(J) that fight against Ariel,(K)
    that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,(L)
    with a vision in the night—

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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.

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

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