Isaiah 30:28

30:28 His battle cry overwhelms like a flooding river ¹ 

that reaches one’s neck.

He shakes the nations in a sieve that isolates the chaff; ² 

he puts a bit into the mouth of the nations and leads them to destruction. ³ 

Job 22:16

22:16 men ⁴  who were carried off ⁵  before their time, ⁶ 

when the flood ⁷  was poured out ⁸ 

on their foundations? ⁹ 

Daniel 11:22

11:22 Armies ¹⁰  will be suddenly ¹¹  swept away in defeat ¹²  before him; both they and a covenant leader ¹³  will be destroyed. ¹⁴ 

Matthew 7:27

7:27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!” ¹⁵ 

Matthew 7:2

7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ¹⁶ 

Matthew 3:6-7

3:6 and he was baptizing them ¹⁷  in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

3:7 But when he saw many Pharisees ¹⁸  and Sadducees ¹⁹  coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

[30:28]  ¹ tn Heb “his breath is like a flooding river.” This might picture the Lord breathing heavily as he runs down his enemy, but in light of the preceding verse, which mentions his lips and tongue, “breath” probably stands metonymically for the word or battle cry that he expels from his mouth as he shouts. In Isa 34:16 and Ps 33:6 the Lord’s “breath” is associated with his command.

[30:28]  ² tn Heb “shaking nations in a sieve of worthlessness.” It is not certain exactly how שָׁוְא (shavÿ’, “emptiness, worthlessness”) modifies “sieve.” A sieve is used to separate grain from chaff and isolate what is worthless so that it might be discarded. Perhaps the nations are likened to such chaff; God’s judgment will sift them out for destruction.

[30:28]  ³ tn Heb “and a bit that leads astray [is] in the jaws of the peoples.” Here the nations are likened to horse that can be controlled by a bit placed in its mouth. In this case the Lord uses his sovereign control over the “horse” to lead it to its demise.

[22:16]  ⁴ tn The word “men” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the relative pronoun “who.”

[22:16]  ⁵ tn The verb קָמַט (qamat) basically means “to seize; to tie together to make a bundle.” So the Pual will mean “to be bundled away; to be carried off.”

[22:16]  ⁶ tn The clause has “and [it was] not the time.” It may be used adverbially here.

[22:16]  ⁷ tn The word is נָהַר (nahar, “river” or “current”); it is taken here in its broadest sense of the waters on the earth that formed the current of the flood (Gen 7:6, 10).

[22:16]  ⁸ tn The verb יָצַק (yatsaq) means “to pour out; to shed; to spill; to flow.” The Pual means “to be poured out” (as in Lev 21:10 and Ps 45:3).

[22:16]  ⁹ tn This word is then to be taken as an adverbial accusative of place. Another way to look at this verse is what A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) proposes “whose foundation was poured away and became a flood.” This would mean that that on which they stood sank away.

[11:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “arms.”

[11:22]  ¹¹ tc The present translation reads הִשָּׁטֹף (hishatof), Niphal infinitive absolute of שָׁטַף (shataf, “to overflow”), for the MT הַשֶּׁטֶף (hashetef, “flood”).

[11:22]  ¹² tn The words “in defeat” are added in the translation for clarification.

[11:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “a prince of the covenant.”

[11:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “broken” or “shattered.”

[7:27]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “and great was its fall.”

[7:2]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “by [the measure] with which you measure it will be measured to you.”

[3:6]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “they were being baptized by him.” The passive construction has been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.

[3:7]  ¹⁸ sn Pharisees were members of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.

[3:7]  ¹⁹ sn The Sadducees controlled the official political structures of Judaism at this time, being the majority members of the Sanhedrin. They were known as extremely strict on law and order issues (Josephus, J. W. 2.8.2 [2.119], 2.8.14 [2.164-166]; Ant. 13.5.9 [13.171-173], 13.10.6 [13.293-298], 18.1.2 [18.11], 18.1.4 [18.16-17], 20.9.1 [20.199]; Life 2 [10-11]). See also Matt 16:1-12; 22:23-34; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-38; Acts 5:17; 23:6-8.