Isaiah 29:5

Isaiah 29:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
• English Standard Version (ESV)But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

Context of Isaiah 29:5

3I will set up war camps all around you. I will blockade you with towers. I will put up mounds of dirt around you. 4When you have fallen, you will speak as you lie on the ground. Your words will be muffled by the dust. Your voice will come out of the ground like that of a ghost. Your words will be whispered from the dust. Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly. 6The Lord of Armies will punish you with thunder, earthquakes, and loud noises, with windstorms, rainstorms, and fire storms. 7The armies from all the nations will go to war against Ariel. They will go to war against it, blockade it, and torment it. All of this will be like a dream, like a vision in the night.

Isaiah 29:5 word by word

וְהָיָ֛ה כְּאָבָ֥ק דַּ֖ק הֲמ֣וֹן זָרָ֑יִךְ וּכְמֹ֤ץ עֹבֵר֙ הֲמ֣וֹן עָֽרִיצִ֔ים וְהָיָ֖ה לְפֶ֥תַע פִּתְאֹֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Moreover the multitudeהָמוֹןhâmôn hâmôn · crowdH1995
• of thy strangersזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114
• shall be like smallדַּקdaq · thinH1851
• dustאָבָק'âbâq · dustH80
• of the terrible onesעָרִיץ‛ârîyts · ruthlessH6184
• as chaffמוֹץmôts môts · chaffH4671
• that passeth awayעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• yea, it shall be at an instantפֶּתַעpetha‛ · suddennessH6621
• suddenlyפִּתְאֹםpith'ôm pith'ôm · suddenlyH6597

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:5

• Isaiah 10:16That is why the Almighty Lord of Armies will send a degenerative disease against brave men. A flame will be turned into a raging fire under his power.
• Isaiah 25:5like heat in a dry land.) You calm the uproar of foreigners. The song of tyrants is silenced like heat that is ⌞reduced⌟ by the shadow of a cloud.
• Isaiah 31:3The Egyptians are humans, not gods. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. When the Lord uses his powerful hand, the one who gives help will stumble, and the one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
• Isaiah 37:36The Lord’s angel went out and killed 185,000 ⌞soldiers⌟ in the Assyrian camp. When the Judeans got up early in the morning, they saw all the corpses.
• Isaiah 17:13The people will make noise like raging water. But the Lord will yell at them, and they will run far away. They will be chased away like husks on the mountains being blown by the wind, like whirling dust being blown by a storm.
• Job 21:18How often are they like straw in the wind or like husks that the storm sweeps away?
• Psalms 1:4Wicked people are not like that. Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.
• Psalms 35:5Let them be like husks blown by the wind as the Messenger of the Lord chases them.
• Isaiah 30:13That is why your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.
• Psalms 46:5God is in that city. It cannot fall. God will help it at the break of dawn.
• Psalms 76:5Brave people were robbed. They died. None of the warriors were able to lift a hand.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:3When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

Commentaries on Isaiah 29:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The multitude of thy strangers "The multitude of the proud" - For זריך zarayich, thy strangers, read זדים zedim, the proud, according to the Septuagint; parallel to and synonymous with עריצים aritsim, the terrible, in the next line: the ר resh was at first ד daleth in a MS. See note on Isaiah 25:2. The fifth, sixth, and seventh verses contain an admirable description of the destruction of Sennacherib's army, with a beautiful variety of the most expressive…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Moreover - These verses Isaiah 29:5, Isaiah 29:7-8 contain a beautiful description of the destruction of the army of Sennacherib. Though they had laid the plan of a regular siege; though the city, in itself, would not be able to hold out against them, and all was alarm and conscious imbecility within; yet in an instant the siege would be raised, and the advancing hosts of the Assyrians would all be gone. The multitude of thy strangers - The multitude of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8During the Assyrian siege, the Lord would fight for Jerusalem. He would eventually make the Assyrians leave the city.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Moreover--rather, "Yet"; yet in this extremity help shall come, and the enemy be scattered. strangers--foreign enemies, invaders (Is 25:2). it shall be--namely, the destruction of the enemy. at an instant--in a moment (Is 30:23).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 29:5

• Isaiah
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Close
• Mouth
• Raise
• Sennacherib
• Chaff
• Dwarf
• Go
• Instant; Instantly
• Isaiah
• Omnipotence

Commentaries on Isaiah 29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings