Isaiah 17:12-14
The roar of nations cannot withstand the rebuke of the Lord.
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
The roar of nations cannot withstand the rebuke of the LORD.
To portray the raging of hostile nations as temporary and to affirm that the LORD rebukes and scatters them.
During Isaiah's era the Near East was marked by powerful empires whose military campaigns appeared overwhelming to smaller nations like Judah.
The Oracle Against Damascus, the Fading Glory of Jacob, and the Rebuke of the Raging Nations
Isaiah 17 declares that Damascus and Ephraim fall because false reliance and forgetting God cannot stand, yet judgment leaves a remnant who look to the Maker and shows that the LORD can rebuke raging nations into nothing.