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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 17:12 Catholic Bible: Powerful nations are in commotion with a sound like the roar of the sea, like the crashing of huge waves. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/17-12.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/17-12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/17-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/17.htm">Chapter 17</a> > Verse 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/17-11.htm" title="Isaiah 17:11">◄</a> Isaiah 17:12 <a href="../isaiah/17-13.htm" title="Isaiah 17:13">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/17.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Powerful nations are in commotion with a sound like the roar of the sea, like the crashing of huge waves. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Ah, the thunder of many peoples, they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations, they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The nations are a noisy, thunderous sea. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Ah! the roaring of many peoples— a roar like the roar of the seas! The thundering of nations— thunder like the thundering of mighty waters! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.</p><p class="hdg">multitude.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/9-5.htm">Isaiah 9:5</a> For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.</p><p class="hdg">make a noise</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-26.htm">Isaiah 5:26-30</a> And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/8-7.htm">Isaiah 8:7,8</a> Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/28-17.htm">Isaiah 28:17</a> And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/18-4.htm">Psalm 18:4</a> The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/46-1.htm">Psalm 46:1-3</a> Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/65-6.htm">Psalm 65:6,7</a> Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/93-3.htm">Psalm 93:3,4</a> The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-23.htm">Jeremiah 6:23</a> They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/43-2.htm">Ezekiel 43:2</a> And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-25.htm">Luke 21:25</a> And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves:</p><p class="hdg">mighty.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/29-3.htm">Psalm 29:3</a> The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1,15</a> And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/17.htm">An Oracle Concerning Damascus</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee much. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl">Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.</span><span class="reftext">13</span>Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/21-25.htm">Luke 21:25</a></span><br />And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/10-35.htm">Numbers 10:35</a></span><br />And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/18-4.htm">Psalm 18:4</a></span><br />The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/65-7.htm">Psalm 65:7</a></span><br />Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/83-2.htm">Psalm 83:2</a></span><br />For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-30.htm">Isaiah 5:30</a></span><br />And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/8-7.htm">Isaiah 8:7</a></span><br />Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/8-9.htm">Isaiah 8:9</a></span><br />Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/13-4.htm">Isaiah 13:4</a></span><br />The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/54-17.htm">Isaiah 54:17</a></span><br />No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/6-23.htm">Jeremiah 6:23</a></span><br />They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/43-2.htm">Ezekiel 43:2</a></span><br />And behold the glory of the God of Israel came in by the way of the east: and his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../micah/4-11.htm">Micah 4:11</a></span><br />Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div 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