Isaiah 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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!

Isaiah 17:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Psalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Jeremiah 6:23
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Ezekiel 43:2
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-14)

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. Triumphing over the people of God. They relied upon their numbers. The Assyrian army was made up out of dive…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Woe ... multitude--rather, “Ho (Hark)! a noise of,” &c. The prophet in vision perceives the vast and mixed Assyrian hosts (Hebrew, “many peoples,” see on Is 5:26): on the hills of Judah (so “mountains,” Is 17:13): but at the “rebuke” of God, they shall “flee as chaff.” to the rushing ... that make--rather, “the roaring ... roareth” (compare Is 8:7; Jr 6:23).