Woe to the multitude of many people which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Woe to the multitude of many people - rather, 'Ho! (Hark!) a noisy multitude of many peoples!' etc. The prophet in vision perceives the vast and mixed Assyrian hosts (Hebrew, 'many peoples;' see note, Isaiah 5:26), on the hills of Judah ("mountains," Isaiah 17:13), but at the "rebuke" of God they shall 'flee as chaff.'
And to the rushing of nations, (that) make a rushing (Hebrew, uwsh'own (H7588)) - 'the roaring that roareth' (cf. Isaiah 8:7; Jeremiah 6:23).