Yesaya 8:7

8:7 So look, the sovereign master ¹  is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River ²  – the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks. ³ 

Yesaya 17:13

17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, ⁴ 

when he shouts at ⁵  them, they will flee to a distant land,

driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,

or like dead thistles ⁶  before a strong gale.

[8:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[8:7]  ² tn Heb “the mighty and abundant waters of the river.” The referent of “the river” here, the Euphrates River, has been specified in the translation for clarity. As the immediately following words indicate, these waters symbolize the Assyrian king and his armies which will, as it were, inundate the land.

[8:7]  ³ tn Heb “it will go up over all its stream beds and go over all its banks.”

[17:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”

[17:13]  ⁵ tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.

[17:13]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”