Isaiah 17:13

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, ¹  when he shouts at ²  them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles ³  before a strong gale.

Job 21:18; Job 38:11; Ps 1:4; Ps 9:5; Ps 35:5; Ps 46:5-11; Ps 83:13-15; Isa 10:15,16,33,34; Isa 14:25; Isa 25:4,5; Isa 27:1; Isa 29:5; Isa 30:30-33; Isa 31:8,9; Isa 33:1-3,9-12; Isa 37:29-38; Isa 41:15,16; Da 2:35; Ho 13:3; Mr 4:39-41

¹ tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”

² tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.

³ tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”