That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
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