All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar ki
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant w
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death,
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you
Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither o
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were str
Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fo
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts,
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happ
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the ea
By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight agai
Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation,
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blow
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was b