To cause waves/ to cause repercussions/ cause a stir

Figuratively: to become widely known and to arouse interest or responses.

("And a plague passed through the sea, and he struck the sea with waves, and they put to shame all the shores of the river, and he brought down the pride of Assyria, and the tribe of Egypt with anguish" - Zechariah 10:1, and so on: "And in the storms of generations, even Meshech, your blood will be like waves, like the waves of the sea" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ All the waves..., and so on: "If this world is the sea/ To which all go "The sick/ If this world is a shore/ The wave of its day beats the waves" - Nathan Jonathan/ The Mother of the World)

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